DEMOG C175 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Problem Set, Claudia Goldin
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Problem set 1 (on bspace) is due in lecture at 2:10pm or turn it in early at the demography building. iclicker starts today. Childbearing and rearing too maybe 32 years of adult life for women (say 18 to 50); reproduction was central (including pregnancy, breastfeeding, caring for young kids) Combined utility of two people married, minus sum of separate utilities if single. Very large households (aunts, grandparents, adult siblings and children) are more efficient but conflicts arise easily. Preindustrial family had large gains to marriage: household was so important as locus of both production and consumption, specialization, division of labor, and returns to scale were all so important. Drivers of change reduce gains to marriage by reducing importance of the economic roles of the household. Shift of locus of production from household to factories and offices, reduces economic functions of family, makes children incompatible with work (people working outside the home more)
