The New Home Economics at Columbia and Chicago

When Mincer and Becker started the New Home Economics, NHE, at Columbia University in the early 1960s, they expanded on the field of family and consumption economics started in the 1920s. Studies forty years of household economics. The history of the NHE shows that Mincer's original contributio...

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Published in:Feminist economics 2001-11, Vol.7 (3), p.103-130
Main Author: Grossbard-Shechtman, S
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Economics
Feminism
Gender
History of economic thought
Household economics
Illinois
Labour
Labour supply
U.S.A
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Summary:When Mincer and Becker started the New Home Economics, NHE, at Columbia University in the early 1960s, they expanded on the field of family and consumption economics started in the 1920s. Studies forty years of household economics. The history of the NHE shows that Mincer's original contribution tends to be underestimated. Argues that the growth of NHE benefited from the concentration of talent at Columbia, organizational support, a diverse student body that included many talented women, the ideological commitments that students, many married, had for the study, a departmental policy deemphasizing gender related politics, and relatively high levels of civility. (Original abstract - amended)
ISSN:1354-5701
DOI:10.1080/13545700110111136