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Journal of Economic Perspectives

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Care Provision and the Boundaries of Production

  • Nancy Folbre
Journal of Economic Perspectives
vol. 38, no. 1, Winter 2024
(pp. 201–20)
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Abstract

Whether or not they provide subjective satisfaction to providers, unpaid services and non-market transfers typically contribute positively to total output, living standards, and the social climate. This essay describes some quantitative dimensions of care provision and reviews their implications for the measurement of economic growth and the explanation of relative earnings, including the gender wage differential. It also calls attention to under-explored aspects of collective conflict over legal rules and public policies that shape the distribution of the net costs of care provision.

Citation

Folbre, Nancy. 2024. "Care Provision and the Boundaries of Production." Journal of Economic Perspectives, 38 (1): 201–20. DOI: 10.1257/jep.38.1.201

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JEL Classification

  • D13 Household Production and Intrahousehold Allocation
  • I10 Health: General
  • J13 Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
  • J14 Economics of the Elderly; Economics of the Handicapped; Non-labor Market Discrimination
  • J16 Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
  • Z13 Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
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