`Making Up' the Middle-Class Child: Families, Activities and Class Dispositions

Subabusive violence in child rearing in middle-class American families.

The Social Geography of Childcare: making up a middle class child

Childcare is a condensate of disparate social forces and social processes. It is gendered and classed. It is subject to an excess of policy and political discourse. It is increasingly a focus for commercial exploitation. This is a paper reporting on work in progress in an ESRC funded research project (R000239232) on the choice and provision of pre-school childcare by middle class (service class...

Making Medicare advantage a middle-class program.

This paper studies the role of Medicare's premium policy in sorting beneficiaries between traditional Medicare (TM) and managed care plans in the Medicare advantage (MA) program. Beneficiaries vary in their demand for care. TM fully accommodates demand but creates a moral hazard inefficiency. MA rations care but disregards some elements of the demand. We describe an efficient assignment of bene...

theoretical understanding of the middle class

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Loosely Coupled Class Families