TY  - CHAP
AB  - Japanese preschools have been the subject of extensive ethnographic investigation over the last 40 years or more. However, the market for preschools in Japan has received almost no such attention. This market is rapidly changing, for the recent sharp decrease in the number of children in the country has resulted in a growing struggle on the part of kindergartens to attract children, largely by catering to the needs of mothers, for their survival. This chapter, by considering children as a common-pool resource (CPR) for which kindergartens quietly vie with one another, examines the situation in the capital city of Akita Prefecture, and shows how mothers – and also households – have been able to benefit in terms of convenience due to competition among kindergartens for their children.
VL  - 29
SN  - 978-1-84855-542-6, 978-1-84855-543-3/0190-1281
DO  - 10.1108/S0190-1281(2009)0000029015
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S0190-1281(2009)0000029015
AU  - Wood Donald C.
ED  - Donald C. Wood
PY  - 2009
Y1  - 2009/01/01
TI  - Children as a common-pool resource: change and the shrinking kindergarten market in a Japanese city
T2  - Economic Development, Integration, and Morality in Asia and the Americas
T3  - Research in Economic Anthropology
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 341
EP  - 379
Y2  - 2024/04/16
ER  -