Obtaining title to their property seemed to increase the average number of hours that members of a household worked by 17 percent. The data suggested that over time, as the effect of titling intensified, the total number of hours worked might increase by 40 percent. There was also a redistribution of labor from work within the home to employment outside and from children to adults. Property titling was associated with a 47 percent decrease in the number of hours worked inside the house and a 28 percent reduction in the use of child labor (Field 2003, 3, 37).

Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, loc. 1926