Time Spent in Home Production in the 20th Century: New Estimates from Old Data

Valerie A. Ramey

NBER Working Paper No. 13985
Issued in May 2008

---- Acknowledgements -----

This paper expands work that appeared in older versions of Valerie Ramey and Neville Francis, "A Century of Work and Leisure." Chris Nekarda provided outstanding research assistance. I wish to thank two anonymous referees for their very useful suggestions. I gratefully acknowledge financial support from National Science Foundation grant SES-0617219 through the NBER. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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