I sent out the following request about a month ago and got no response. I'm thinking it never went thru, so I am trying again. ___________________________ I am hoping our friends in OZ can answer a question. In macro, I was doing the standard rap on how the measure of GDP ignores HH production and one of my students raised an interesting point. She has a sister who lives in OZ, and she claims her sister receives a pmt from the gov't to stay home and take care of her kids. Is this really true? If so, since the gov't is apparently putting a dollar value on raising the kids, are these pmts included in the measured GDP? Doug Orr [EMAIL PROTECTED]
