In Parentonomics: An Economist Dad Looks at Parenting, Professor Joshua Gans wonders what it would be like to apply key economic principles to raising his own three children. Can incentives and rewards prompt them to do things like sleep through the night, eat healthy meals, clean up their rooms, do their homework? Can economics help the smart, caring, well-adjusted, high-achieving little person that we know is in there to emerge?
Parentonomics shows that bringing together the hard questions of economics with the chaos, mess and love that children inspire makes a wonderful combination. This website is devoted to all things Parentonomics.
I've just downloaded it, but it looks very interesting. I'll post a review later on.