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- catalog abstract ""No one doubts that children supplied valuable labor on nineteenth-century American farms. But the value of that labor varied, and the children themselves represented economic costs as well as benefits. How did children affect a farmer's choices? Did bigger farms mean, in effect, bigger families? Drawing on census, wage, and other data, Lee A. Craig addresses such questions in offering a new econometric interpretation of productivity and fertility in the antebellum North." "In contrast to prevailing scholarly opinion, Craig finds that children did not provide a noteworthy advantage on the frontier, though they did so in the settled but rocky-soiled Northeast. He concludes that a farmer's economic strategy depended not so much on the size of his holding or his age (and fertility) as it did on regional agricultural patterns and proximity to market. These findings contradict the now-dominant view that farmers adjusted output according to the number of available laborers - including children. Distinguishing between the Northeast and Old Northwest, Craig constructs a model that incorporates the advantages and monetary disadvantages of child labor and accounts for the drop in fertility in regions where opportunities for children off the farm were greater than those at home."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog contributor b4884142.
- catalog created "c1993.".
- catalog date "1993".
- catalog date "c1993.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1993.".
- catalog description ""No one doubts that children supplied valuable labor on nineteenth-century American farms. But the value of that labor varied, and the children themselves represented economic costs as well as benefits. How did children affect a farmer's choices? Did bigger farms mean, in effect, bigger families? Drawing on census, wage, and other data, Lee A. Craig addresses such questions in offering a new econometric interpretation of productivity and fertility in the antebellum North." "In contrast to prevailing scholarly opinion, Craig finds that children did not provide a noteworthy advantage on the frontier, though they did so in the settled but rocky-soiled Northeast. He concludes that a farmer's economic strategy depended not so much on the size of his holding or his age (and fertility) as it did on regional agricultural patterns and proximity to market. These findings contradict the now-dominant view that farmers adjusted output according to the number of available laborers - including children. Distinguishing between the Northeast and Old Northwest, Craig constructs a model that incorporates the advantages and monetary disadvantages of child labor and accounts for the drop in fertility in regions where opportunities for children off the farm were greater than those at home."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Preface and Acknowledgments -- ONE. The Decline of Rural Birthrates in the Antebellum North -- TWO. The Value of Output and the Division of Labor on the Family Farm -- THREE. The Allocation of Farm Labor and the Life Cycle of the Household -- FOUR. The Economic Value of Women and Children in Northern Agriculture -- FIVE. Fertility Decline, Economic Growth, and Northern Agriculture -- APPENDIX A. The Estimation of Gross Farm Revenue -- APPENDIX B. Chi-Square Test Results from Comparing Output Mix Between Regions -- APPENDIX C. An Economic Model of Farm Family Fertility -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY -- INDEX.".
- catalog extent "xii, 161 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "To sow one acre more.".
- catalog identifier "0801845297 (acid-free paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "To sow one acre more.".
- catalog isPartOf "The Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science ; 111th ser., 1".
- catalog issued "1993".
- catalog issued "c1993.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,".
- catalog relation "To sow one acre more.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "338.1/4 20".
- catalog subject "Agricultural productivity United States History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Family farms United States History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Fertility, Human Economic aspects United States History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "HB915 .C7 1993".
- catalog subject "Rural children Employment United States History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Rural families United States History 19th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Preface and Acknowledgments -- ONE. The Decline of Rural Birthrates in the Antebellum North -- TWO. The Value of Output and the Division of Labor on the Family Farm -- THREE. The Allocation of Farm Labor and the Life Cycle of the Household -- FOUR. The Economic Value of Women and Children in Northern Agriculture -- FIVE. Fertility Decline, Economic Growth, and Northern Agriculture -- APPENDIX A. The Estimation of Gross Farm Revenue -- APPENDIX B. Chi-Square Test Results from Comparing Output Mix Between Regions -- APPENDIX C. An Economic Model of Farm Family Fertility -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY -- INDEX.".
- catalog title "To sow one acre more : childbearing and farm productivity in the antebellum north / Lee A. Craig.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".