In recent decades, women have worked more hours in paid jobs and fewer hours in unpaid housework.
a. How would this increase in work hours affect GDP?
b. Explain why this increase in measured GDP will overstate the true increase in output. Also explain how a set of augmented national accounts which includes home production would treat this change from nonmarket work to market work.
c. Explain the paradox, "When a person marries his or her gardener, GDP goes down."
Examine the price-change numbers shown in the example on page 403.
a. Use the formula to calculate the increase in the CPI from March 2007 to March 2008 to two decimal places. Verify that the number shown in the table is correct to a single decimal place.
b. The level of the CPI in March 2007 was 205.10. Calculate the CPI for March 2008