Although there is not a market for household care, one can show that there are substantial transfers involved when one partner stays at home. As an earlier comm

Although there is not a market for household care, one can show that there are substantial transfers involved when one partner stays at home. As an earlier commenter noted, a partner who stays at home enjoys the use of many of the same things -- all the property -- and has all of their own consumption covered. Working backwards from consumption would allow us to discover the nominal price of housework.