She Has Suddenly Become Powerful
Youth Employment and Household Decision Making in the Early Twentieth Century
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4875594 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Carolyn M Moehling (Yale University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 65 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 414-438 |
| Publication date | 2005-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Economic History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0507 • E-ISSN: 1471-6372 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0022050705000148 |
| OpenAlex | W2095771118 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 21 |
| References cited | 21 |
In the United States a century ago, working children turned over almost all of their earnings to their parents. What incentives, then, did they have to work? Standard answers include altruism or the "sticks" wielded by parents and employers. This article argues that there were also "carrots": working gave children greater influence in household decision making. Using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Cost of Living Survey 1917-1919, this article shows that working children had higher clothing expenditures than did nonworking children and that clothing expenditures were increasing in the income a child brought into the household
Altruism (biology) · Clothing · Demographic economics · Earnings · Economics · Incentive · Labour economics · Political science · Work (physics) · Engineering · Finance · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology
Know Your Place
Adolescents’ Impact on Family Economy in Sweden
Horticultural exports, female wage employment and primary school enrolment
Ladies first
The long-term association between child labour and cognitive development
The shifters of intrahousehold decision-making in European countries
Parental altruism and child labor
Good for girls or bad for boys? Schooling, social inequality and intrahousehold allocation in early twentieth century Finland
Family structure and childhood anthropometry in Saint Paul, Minnesota in 1918
Informal transfers, men, women and children
See First, Think Later, Then Test’
Child Labor and Schooling in Bolivia
Children’s say in the household
Adversity and the Ironies of Assistance
Labor History Bibliography 2005
Measuring misery
Un-American” or unnecessary? America’s rejection of compulsory government health insurance in the Progressive Era
Intra-household labor allocation in colonial Nigeria
Socioeconomic status in childhood and health after age 70
Are Children Decision‐Makers within the Household
To help keep the home going
When teenagers work
Lives of their own
Nash-Bargained Household Decisions
Workers' control in America
Marriage and Household Decision-Making
Testing the Neoclassical Model of Family Labor Supply and Fertility
Efficient Intra-Household Allocations
Intra-Household Resource Allocation
Does Female Income Share Influence Household Expenditures? Evidence From Côte d'Ivoire
Child Labor and Schooling in Bolivia
Family time and industrial time
When Teen-Agers Work
Income and Outcomes
Separate Spheres Bargaining and the Marriage Market
Gender, Agricultural Production, and the Theory of the Household
Household and market production of families in a late nineteenth century American city
New Evidence on the Timing of Early Life Course Transitions
America's Graduation from High School
Family Time and Industrial Time
| Unique citing works | 21 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,05 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2025 (20) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 18 |