Engines of Liberation
构建贝克尔家庭生产模型，分析20世纪家用电器普及如何通过改变家庭生产决策，促进已婚女性进入劳动力市场。
Electricity was born at the dawn of the last century. Households were inundated with a ood of new consumer durables. What was the impact of this consumer durable goods revolution? It is argued here that the consumer goods revolution was conducive to liberating women from the home. To analyze this hypothesis, a Beckerian model of household production is developed. Households must decide whether or not to adopt the new technologies, and whether a married woman should work. Can such a model help to explain the rise in married female labor-force participation that occurred in the last century? Yes.