Abstract
The emphasis is on the measurement of productivity and total home output. Attempts to answer the questions: 1) What are the factors determining the wife's productivity at home? 2) What is the value of home production and how does it compare with the family's money income? 3) How does the value of home production differ among families with different socioeconomic backgrounds? 4) How is it affected by the wife's labor force participation and by the existence of young children? 5) How does it change over the family's life cycle? It is found that the value of home production associated with the work at home of U.S. wives in 1973 exceeded 60% of the family's money income before taxes, and 70% of the family's money income after taxes. - Author
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 408-416 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Journal | Review of Economics and Statistics |
| Volume | 62 |
| Issue number | 3 |
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| State | Published - 1980 |