The value of household labor in antebellum northern agriculture.

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    • Abstract:
      Estimates the contribution of farm household members to agricultural output in the antebellum northern United States. Rejects the hypothesis that children contributed more in the least settled regions; Contends that the contribution of young children and teenage females was greatest in the Old Northwest; Teenage boys made their largest contribution in the Northeast; More.