Wagman, Barnet; Folbre, Nancy - In: Feminist Economics 2 (1996) 1, pp. 43-66
This paper explores the role of nonmarket household services in the growth and development of the U.S. economy, in the period between 1870 and 1930. In the first section, we review previous efforts to estimate the value and composition of household output, and sketch a descriptive account of the...