Counting Housework: New Estimates of Real Product in the United States, 1800

Counting Housework: New Estimates of Real Product in the United States, 1800–1860

Published:1993-06 Issue:2 Volume:53 Page:275-288
ISSN:0022-0507
Container-title:The Journal of Economic History
language:en
Short-container-title:J. Eco. History

Author:

Folbre Nancy,Wagman Barnet

Abstract

Women engaged primarily in the provision of domestic services for family members make important contributions to total output. This article provides estimates of the size and sectoral allocation of the nonmarket household work force in the United States between 1800 and 1860. Those estimates are then used as a basis for several alternative imputations of the value of these women's work, which modify the historical picture of economic growth over this period.

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Subject

Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous),Economics and Econometrics,History

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