Greenwood, Jeremy; Seshadri, Ananth; Yorukoglu, Mehmet - In: Review of Economic Studies 72 (2005) 1, pp. 109-133
Electricity was born at the dawn of the last century. Households were inundated with a flood of new consumer durables. What was the impact of this consumer durable goods revolution? It is argued here that the consumer goods revolution was conducive to liberating women from the home. To analyse...