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| Title: | Reid, Margaret G. Papers |
|---|---|
| Dates: | 1904-1990 |
| Size: | 30.5 linear feet (54 boxes) |
| Repository: |
Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center |
| Abstract: | Margaret Gilpin Reid (1896-1991) was a Professor of Home Economics and Economics at the University of Chicago between 1951 and 1961. Reid was one of the first economists to theorize the economic contributions of non-market activities such as housework. Her work during the 1930s, which argued the household was a site of production as well as consumption, has been cited as an important forerunner to the "New Home Economics" of the 1960s. This collection contains Reid's research data and drafts of her books and papers. It also contains cards, clippings, professional and personal correspondence, and writings by other scholars. Material spans 1904-1990, concentrated in the 1930s through the early 1980s. |
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Margaret Gilpin Reid (1896-1991) was an economist whose research interests centered on household production and consumption, and later on the relationships between health, income, and productivity. Her work on the importance of non-market activities such as housework is considered to have anticipated "New Home Economics" in the 1960s.
Reid was born in Canada and completed a degree in Home Economics at the University of Manitoba in 1921. She received her PhD from the University of Chicago in 1931. She taught briefly at Connecticut College, moving on to Iowa State College (Iowa State University) where she taught and researched until 1945. Her first book, Economics of Household Production, was published in 1934. Reid, like her PhD advisor Hazel Kyrk, sought to theorize the productive contribution made by domestic activities within the household. She drew much of her data from experimental agricultural stations in the Midwest. Her attention to labour skills and technologies applied in the home led her to conclude that the household was not only a site of consumption, but of production. Feminist economists would later argue that this work was underappreciated and even ignored, pointing out its similarity to Gary Becker's 1965 Nobel-prize winning theory of time allocation.
Reid served as an economic advisor to the Division of Statistical Standards during 1943 and 1944. She moved permanently to Washington the following year, where she served as the Head of Family Economics for the Department of Agriculture. She returned to academia in 1948, taking up a position in economics at the University of Chicago, Urbana-Champaign. She was also a member of the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, reporting on price inflation and family budgets to its Committee on Postwar Agricultural Policy. Reid's tenure at Iowa State and at UIUC involved her in controversies about academic freedom: in Iowa, faculty chafed at the dairy lobby's control over the administration, while in Illinois a series of resignations protested the administration's removal of a popular Dean.
In 1951 Reid returned to the University of Chicago as a Professor of Home Economics and Economics. Although she became emeritus in 1961, she continued to research and write until her death in 1991. Her work at Chicago brought her in contact with economists such as Theodore W. Schultz (a colleague from Iowa) and Milton Friedman. She was an active member of Gary Becker's Applications of Economics Workshop. In later years her work was preoccupied with the relationship between demographic factors such as age, race, health, and income, and productivity and consumption.
The American Economic Association named Reid a Distinguished Fellow in 1980, recognizing her as a "truly tireless colleague" whose contributions to the field were complemented by a "felicitous sense of humour." In 1996 Feminist Economics devoted an issue to recognizing her research, and scholarship continues to try to restore her status as a pioneering economist.
This collection is divided into three series:
Series I: Research and Writings, contains Reid's research data and notes. "Data" refers both to raw data and calculations. The series includes correspondence, as well as articles, conference papers, and drafts of papers and books authored by Reid and other scholars. Of note is material related to her early research into household production and consumption, drawn from agricultural stations and farm agencies during the 1930s and 1940s. Oversized data has been transferred to Series III. Material spans the 1937 through 1986.
Subseries II: Personal, contains address books, bills, cards, certificates, clippings, personal correspondence, prints, a passport, and a journal. It also contains photographs of Reid's friends and family. Oversized certificates have been transferred to Series III. Material spans 1904-1990.
Subseries III: Oversize, contains clippings, certificates, and research data, transferred from Series I and II. It includes a copy of Reid's book Consumers and the Market. Newspaper clippings are in poor condition. Material spans 1938-1977.
The following related resources are located in the Department of Special Collections:
Series I: Research and Writings |
This series contains Reid's research data and notes. "Data" refers both to raw data and calculations. The series includes articles, conference papers, and drafts of papers and books. These were authored by Reid unless otherwise noted. Some folders contain related correspondence and one includes teaching materials. Oversize material has been moved to Series III. Material is divided into five subseries:
Subseries 1: Household Economics, contains material related to Reid's early research and publication on household consumption and production. The bulk of the data and notes in this subseries were drawn from agricultural stations and collected by the Farm Security Administration (FSA) and Farmers' Home Administration (FAH); these loan agencies required farm families to keep detailed income and expenditure records during the 1930s and 1940s. These records are of particular note. Also of note are clippings and correspondence on the oleomargarine controversy at Iowa State College during 1943 and 1944, while Reid was faculty there. When faculty recommended wartime use of oleomargarine, the Iowa dairy lobby pressured the administration to change their publication. Some faculty resigned in protest. Material spans the 1930s-1979, primarily covering the period between 1937 and 1951. It is organized alphabetically by topic and title.
Subseries 2: Income and Consumption, covers the middle part of Reid's career and documents her interest in the demographics of income and consumption, particularly in urban areas. This subseries contains data, research notes, and book drafts. It spans 1950-1978 and is organized alphabetically by topic and title.
Subseries 3: Income and Health, contains data, notes, and drafts on the relationship between health, income, and productivity. These topics preoccupied Reid in the final stages of her career. Material spans 1964-1985, primarily covering the 1970s and early 1980s. It is organized alphabetically by topic and title.
Subseries 4: General, contains computations, data, and research notes on unidentified topics. In also contains indexed bibliographies. It includes Reid's cv a list of her publications. Much of this material is undated, though it appears to cover the 1930s up to 1981.
Subseries 5: Writings by Others, contains articles and papers written by other scholars. Reports by government departments or other institutions are filed by topic along with other research material in the preceding subseries. These writings are organized by author and span the 1930s-1986.
Subseries 1: Household Economics |
| Box 1 Folder 1 | "Adjustments of Rural Families to Economic Change, University of Tennessee, 1945 |
| Box 1 Folder 2-3 | "Changing Composition of Family Budgets for Selected Groups of Corn Belt Farmers," Department of Agriculture, 1940-1942 |
| Box 1 Folder 4-6 | Current Population Survey (CPS), data, 1948, 1950 |
| Box 1 Folder 7 | CPS, re-tabulation of data, undated |
| Box 1 Folder 8 | Data, 1940s |
| Box 1 Folder 9 | Economic behavior and value, notes, 1936 |
| Box 1 Folder 10-11 | "The Economic Contribution of Homemakers," 1947-1948 |
| Box 1 Folder 12 | Economics and sociology, notes, undated |
| Box 1 Folder 13 | "Elasticity of Expenditure in Relation to Income for Families of Different Economic Levels," draft and data, 1940s |
| Box 1 Folder 14 | "Family Economics Tri-annual Report," 1950 |
| Box 1 Folder 14 | Family expenditures, draft and correspondence, 1951 |
| Box 1 Folder 16 | Family size, data and notes, 1941-1944 |
| Box 2 Folder 1 | Farm budget data, Iowa State College, 1940s |
| Box 2 Folder 2 | Farm family budgets, 1941-1942 |
| Box 2 Folder 3-7 | Farm family expenditures, data and notes, 1939-1940, undated |
| Box 2 Folder 8-9 | Farm family incomes, data and notes, 1949, undated |
| Box 2 Folder 10 | "Farm Family Living," conference paper, 1946 |
| Box 3 Folder 1 | Farm Family Living in Illinois, study, 1946 |
| Box 3 Folder 2 | "Farm Family Living Prospects in 1946," 1945 |
| Box 3 Folder 3-7 | Farm and home account books, blank, undated |
| Box 3 Folder 8 | Farm and home accounts, computations, undated |
| Box 3 Folder 9 | Farm and home accounts, notes, 1946 |
| Box 3 Folder 10 | Farm and home accounts by state, data, 1940-1942 |
| Box 4 Folder 1-6 | Farm Security Administration (FSA), data, 1940s |
| Box 4 Folder 7 | FSA, Illinois Office, data, 1946 |
| Box 4 Folder 8-9 | Farmers' Home Administration (FHA), Annual Income Reports, 1950-1951 |
| Box 4 Folder 10-13 | FHA, loan data, 1940s |
| Box 4 Folder 14 | "Farmers in a Changing World: The 1940 Yearbook of Agriculture," with D.D. Hammerburg and L.J. Norton, 1941 |
| Box 5 Folder 1 | Food consumption, farm families in southern counties, data, 1947-1948 |
| Box 5 Folder 2 | "Food Consumption of Low Income Families," statement before the Joint Committee on Economic Report, 1950 |
| Box 5 Folder 3-6 | Food expenditures, rural and urban families, data, 1940s |
| Box 5 Folder 7 | Household economics, notes, undated |
| Box 6 Folder 1 | Household expenditures, data and correspondence, 1953 |
| Box 6 Folder 2-3 | Household income, notes, undated |
| Box 6 Folder 4-5 | "The Household as Producer," conference paper and correspondence, 1979 |
| Box 6 Folder 6-7 | Household time and cost, bibliographies, 1930s-1940s |
| Box 7 Folder 1 | Housing, data, 1968 |
| Box 7 Folder 2-5 | "Housing and Income," draft, 1961 |
| Box 7 Folder 6 | "Human Resources and Community," Iowa State University report, 1975 |
| Box 7 Folder 7 | Hurwitz, notes, 1945 |
| Box 7 Folder 8 | Illinois, data, 1937-1941 |
| Box 8 Folder 1-2 | "Income Expenditure Patterns of Farm Operator Families," draft and notes, undated |
| Box 8 Folder 3 | Intercity Correlations of Food With Respect to Income," draft, 1964 |
| Box 8 Folder 4-6 | Iowa, data, 1943-1949 |
| Box 8 Folder 7 | Iowa Farm Account Book, blank, undated |
| Box 8 Folder 8 | Iowa Farm Family Budget Records, 1940-1942 |
| Box 8 Folder 9 | Iowa home accounts, data, 1939-1941 |
| Box 8 Folder 10 | "Iowa Incomes," with Virginia Britton, 1938 |
| Box 9 Folder 1-2 | Iowa State College and the oleomargarine controversy, clippings and correspondence, 1943-1944 |
| Box 9 Folder 3 | Iowa State College, memoranda, 1941-1943 |
| Box 9 Folder 4 | "Is the Inflation Danger Passed?" radio roundtable with J. Kenneth Galbraith, A.G. Hart, and Maynard Krueger, 1944 |
| Box 9 Folder 5 | John Wiley and Sons Publishers, correspondence, 1979 |
| Box 9 Folder 6-7 | Kansas, data, 1940s |
| Box 9 Folder 8 | Kansas, farm surveys, blank, 1948-1949 |
| Box 9 Folder 9 | Kansas and North Carolina, data, 1930s |
| Box 9 Folder 10 | "Major Categories of Farm Consumption," data and notes, 1949 |
| Box 9 Folder 11 | Marital status, data, 1960 |
| Box 9 Folder 12 | "Measures of Food and Associated Conditions," draft, 1966 |
| Box 9 Folder 13 | Mississippi, farm study, correspondence and data, 1949 |
| Box 10 Folder 1 | "Nutritional Aspects and Farm Family Needs in a Food and Nutrition Policy," 1947 |
| Box 10 Folder 2 | "Obstacles to Better Nutrition," 1945 |
| Box 10 Folder 3 | "The Outlook for Family Living," conference paper, 1945 |
| Box 10 Folder 4 | Population statistics, 1940s |
| Box 10 Folder 5 | "Postwar Agricultural Policy: Report on the Committee of the Association of Land-grant Colleges and Universities," 1944 |
| Box 10 Folder 6 | "Psychological Analysis of Economic Behaviour," Katona, book review, 1951 |
| Box 10 Folder 7 | "Reconsideration of the Physiological Energy Value of Foods," Department of Agriculture, 1947 |
| Box 10 Folder 8-9 | "Relation of the Within Group Transitory Component of Incomes to the Income Elasticity of Family Expenditures, draft, undated |
| Box 10 Folder 10 | "Research in the Bureau of Human Nutrition and Home Economics," 1951 |
| Box 10 Folder 11 | "Survey of Food Consumption by Open Country Families," Department of Agriculture, 1945 |
| Box 10 Folder 12-13 | "Trends in Work of Married Women," 1943 |
| Box 10 Folder 14 | University of Illinois controversy, Everett E. Hagen, letter of resignation, 1951 |
| Box 10 Folder 15 | "Wartime Farm and Food Policy: Food Strategy," 1943 |
Subseries 2: Income and Consumption |
| Box 10 Folder 16 | Adjusted Food Expenditure, data, 1950-1960 |
| Box 10 Folder 17 | Age, income, and male population by city, data, data, 1950-1972 |
| Box 11 Folder 1 | "Coefficients of Elasticity of Food," draft, 1960 |
| Box 11 Folder 2 | "Comments on Research in Human Capital," conference paper, 1975 |
| Box 11 Folder 3 | "Components of Income of Consumer Units by Urbanization and Region," draft, undated |
| Box 11 Folder 4 | Consumer sovereignty, discussion, undated |
| Box 11 Folder 5 | "Consumers and the Market," course materials and student work, 1955-1956 |
| Box 11 Folder 6 | Consumption, articles, 1960s |
| Box 11 Folder 7 | Consumption in cities, data, 1977 |
| Box 11 Folder 8 | Consumption economics, notes, undated |
| Box 11 Folder 9 | "Consumption of Families in Metro Areas," draft and data, circa 1972 |
| Box 11 Folder 10 | "Consumption Levels of the American People," draft, undated |
| Box 11 Folder 11 | "Consumption Patterns and Trends," conference paper, 1964 |
| Box 11 Folder 12 | Educational Attainment, 1970 Census, 1970 |
| Box 11 Folder 13-14 | "The Evolution of U.S. Agriculture," World Food Forum, paper and proceedings, 1972 |
| Box 12 Folder 1 | "Expenditure-income Curves of Food," draft, 1969 |
| Box 12 Folder 2 | "Expenditures for Furniture and Equipment," draft, undated |
| Box 12 Folder 3-7 | "Food Expenditures of Urban Consumer Units," drafts, 1968 |
| Box 13 Folder 1-2 | Food and income," draft, 1962 |
| Box 13 Folder 3 | "Food, Income, and Expenditure," draft, undated |
| Box 13 Folder 4-6 | "Food, Income, and Prices of Areas in the U.S.," draft, 1971 |
| Box 13 Folder 7 | "Food With Respect to Income of Consumers," draft, 1964 |
| Box 13 Folder 8 | "How Much Poverty and its Relation to H.R. 10440," draft, undated |
| Box 13 Folder 9 | Income, bibliography, undated |
| Box 13 Folder 10 | Income, data, 1942-1970 |
| Box 14 Folder 1-2 | Income, data, 1970s |
| Box 14 Folder 2-4 | "Income Components and Consumption," draft, undated |
| Box 14 Folder 5-6 | Income and consumption, data and notes, 1960-1965 |
| Box 15 Folder 1-6 | Income and consumption, data and notes, 1970-1971, undated |
| Box 15 Folder 7 | Income and consumption, draft and data, 1978 |
| Box 16 Folder 1-2 | Income and consumption, draft, undated |
| Box 16 Folder 3 | income and consumption, excerpt, undated |
| Box 16 Folder 4 | Income and consumption, metro areas, data, 1960 |
| Box 16 Folder 5 | Income and consumption, urban and rural areas, data, undated |
| Box 16 Folder 6-7 | Income elasticity, computation, 1978 |
| Box 17 Folder 1 | Income inequality, data and notes, 1971 |
| Box 17 Folder 2 | "Income and Levels of Consumption," draft, 1952 |
| Box 17 Folder 3 | Income and Medicare, data, 1972 |
| Box 17 Folder 4 | Income, savings, and consumption, discussion, undated |
| Box 17 Folder 5 | "Income and Welfare in the U.S.," book review, 1963 |
| Box 17 Folder 6 | "Increasing the Efficiency of Consumer Buymanship," 1963 |
| Box 17 Folder 7 | "Inequality of Average Income of Urban Units," draft, 1976 |
| Box 17 Folder 8 | "Inequality in Income Distribution," discussion, undated |
| Box 17 Folder 9 | "Inequality of Income Distribution," draft, undated |
| Box 17 Folder 10 | Metro areas, footnote draft, 1976 |
| Box 17 Folder 11-12 | Migration, data, 1978 |
| Box 18 Folder 1 | Price indexes of cities, data, undated |
| Box 18 Folder 2-5 | "Structure of Expenditure and Income," drafts, 1968, |
| Box 18 Folder 6 | "Structure of Expenditure and Income, undated |
| Box 19 Folder 1-3 | "Structure of Expenditure and Income, undated |
| Box 19 Folder 4-7 | "Structure of Income and Consumption, Vol. I," drafts, 1967 |
| Box 20 Folder 1-8 | "Structure of Income and Consumption, Vol. I," drafts, 1967 |
| Box 21 Folder 1-5 | "Structure of Income and Consumption, Vol. I," drafts, 1967 |
| Box 22 Folder 1-6 | "Structure of Income and Consumption, Vol. I," drafts, 1967 |
| Box 22 Folder 7 | "Structure of Income and Consumption, Ch. 7," draft, 1968 |
| Box 22 Folder 8 | "Structure of Income and Consumption, Vol. I," draft, 1969 |
| Box 23 Folder 1-6 | "Structure of Income and Consumption, Vol. I," draft, 1969 |
| Box 23 Folder 7 | "Structure of Income and Consumption, Vol. II," draft outline, 1969 |
| Box 23 Folder 8-10 | "Structure of Income and Consumption, Vol. I.," draft, 1970 |
| Box 24 Folder 1-4 | "Structure of Income and Consumption, Vol. I.," draft, 1970 |
| Box 24 Folder 5-6 | "Structure of Income and Consumption, Vol. II," draft, 1970 |
| Box 25 Folder 1-9 | "Structure of Income and Consumption, Vol. II," draft, 1970 |
| Box 25 Folder 10 | "Structure of Income and Consumption," draft, 1971 |
| Box 26 Folder 1-4 | "Structure of Income and Consumption," draft and correspondence, 1971 |
| Box 26 Folder 5-7 | "Structure of Income and Consumption," drafts, undated |
| Box 27 Folder 1-5 | "Structure of Income and Consumption," drafts, undated |
| Box 28 Folder 1 | "Structure of Income and Consumption," drafts, undated |
| Box 28 Folder 2-3 | Structure of income and consumption, urban consumers, data, circa 1967 |
| Box 28 Folder 4-7 | Structure of income and consumption, urban consumers, draft, undated |
| Box 29 Folder 1-4 | "Theories of Consumption and Income Distribution," drafts with review comments, 1971 |
| Box 29 Folder 5 | Trends in Social and Economic Conditions in Metropolitan and Non-metropolitan Areas," Bureau of the Census, 1970 |
| Box 29 Folder 6 | Urban consumer units by age of head and income, notes and data, undated |
| Box 29 Folder 7 | Veterans, income, data, 1960-1970 |
Subseries 3: Income and Health |
| Box 29 Folder 8 | "Age Distribution and Death Rates of Populations: Males by Colour," draft, undated |
| Box 30 Folder 1-3 | "Age Distributions and Health of Populations" drafts and data, 1981-1983, undated |
| Box 30 Folder 4 | Age, health, and labour, notes, circa 1970s-1980s |
| Box 30 Folder 5 | "Average Characteristics of Males of Disability Surveys," draft and data, circa 1970s-1980s |
| Box 30 Folder 6 | California Public Health Statistical Report," 1964 |
| Box 30 Folder 7-8 | "Changes in Medical Care Prices of Cities," drafts and data, circa 1960s |
| Box 30 Folder 9 | "Characteristics of Economic Resources of Males of Metro Areas and States," draft, 1973 |
| Box 31 Folder 1 | Computations, 1983 |
| Box 31 Folder 2-3 | Data, 1983 |
| Box 31 Folder 4-5 | Data by state, 1978-1983 |
| Box 31 Folder 6-9 | Death rates, data, 1977-1984 |
| Box 32 Folder 1-4 | Death rates, data, undated |
| Box 32 Folder 5 | Death rates, age, data, 1975 |
| Box 32 Folder 6-7 | Death rates, age and race, drafts and data, 1972, 1977 |
| Box 32 Folder 8 | Death rates, males, data, undated |
| Box 32 Folder 9 | Death rates, males by state, data, undated |
| Box 32 Folder 10 | Death rates, other variables, data, undated |
| Box 32 Folder 11 | Death rates, statistics and correspondence, 1976 |
| Box 32 Folder 12-14 | Death rates, white males, data and notes, undated |
| Box 32 Folder 15 | Death rates, white males, age adjustments, data, circa 1970s |
| Box 32 Folder 16 | Death rates, years, data, 1987 |
| Box 33 Folder 1-2 | "Death Rates and Demographic Characteristics of Populations," drafts and notes, 1971, undated |
| Box 33 Folder 3-5 | "Death Rates and Economic Factors," drafts, 1973, 1978 |
| Box 33 Folder 6-7 | Death rates and income, drafts and data, 1976 |
| Box 34 Folder 1 | "Death Rates of Persons by Annual Income and Schooling," drafts and data, 1980 |
| Box 34 Folder 2-5 | Death rates of populations, data and notes, 1982-1983 |
| Box 34 Folder 6-9 | "Death Rates of Populations by Age, Sex, and Colour," drafts, 1978 |
| Box 35 Folder 1 | "Death Rates of Populations by Age, Sex, and Colour," drafts, 1978 |
| Box 35 Folder 2 | "Death Rates of Populations of Areas and their Demographic Characteristics," draft, 1973 |
| Box 35 Folder 3-4 | Death rates of state populations, drafts and data, 1976 |
| Box 35 Folder 5 | "Death Rates of State Populations by Race, Age, and Economic Factors," draft, undated |
| Box 35 Folder 6 | Disability and labour, data, circa 1970s |
| Box 35 Folder 7-8 | "Disability of Household Populations of Income Groups," draft, 1980 |
| Box 35 Folder 9 | Disability surveys, circa 1970s |
| Box 36 Folder 1-4 | "Economic Resources and Health," drafts and data, 1978 |
| Box 36 Folder 5 | Education and health, draft, circa 1980 |
| Box 36 Folder 6-9 | "An Exploration of Conflicting Evidence of Death Rates and Income," drafts, 1976 |
| Box 37 Folder 1 | "An Exploration of Conflicting Evidence of Death Rates and Income," drafts, 1976 |
| Box 37 Folder 2 | "An Exploration of Conflicting Evidence of Death Rates and Income," reviews and correspondence, 1976-1977 |
| Box 37 Folder 3-7 | Health, data and notes, 1980s, undated |
| Box 37 Folder 8 | Health, footnote drafts, circa 1980s |
| Box 37 Folder 9 | Health, age, and income, data, 1980s |
| Box 37 Folder 10-11 | "Health, Age, and Income of Populations," drafts, 1983, 1985 |
| Box 38 Folder 1-7 | "Health, Age, and Income of Populations," drafts, 1983, 1985 |
| Box 38 Folder 8-11 | Health, age, and race, data, circa 1980s |
| Box 38 Folder 12 | Health conclusions, draft, 1982 |
| Box 38 Folder 13 | "Health and Economic Resources," draft, 1976 |
| Box 38 Folder 14-15 | Health and income, data and notes, undated |
| Box 38 Folder 16 | "Health of Members of Populations of Households," draft, undated |
| Box 39 Folder 1 | Health by state, data, undated |
| Box 39 Folder 2-4 | "Health Status and Income," drafts, 1980, 1982 |
| Box 39 Folder 5 | Health variables, draft and data, undated |
| Box 39 Folder 6-7 | Homicide and accidental death, data, undated |
| Box 39 Folder 8 | Household membership, draft and data, circa 1980s |
| Box 39 Folder 9 | Household production and health, notes, undated |
| Box 39 Folder 10 | Human capital and poverty, research materials, circa 1970s-1980s |
| Box 39 Folder 11 | Income and benefits, data and research materials, 1970-1982 |
| Box 39 Folder 12 | Income and child health, notes, 1981 |
| Box 39 Folder 13 | Income and disability, data, 1978 |
| Box 40 Folder 1-8 | Income and health, drafts and data, circa 1970s-1980s |
| Box 41 Folder 1 | Income, health, and disability, data, circa 1970s |
| Box 41 Folder 2-9 | "Income, Health, and Disability," drafts, 1975 |
| Box 42 Folder 1 | "Income, Health, and Disability," drafts and data, 1970s |
| Box 42 Folder 2 | "Income, Health, and Disability," drafts and data, 1984 |
| Box 42 Folder 3-4 | "Income, Health, and Labour Force," draft, 1983 |
| Box 42 Folder 5 | Income and race, data, 1977 |
| Box 42 Folder 6 | "Income, Schooling, and Health," draft, circa 1970s-1980s |
| Box 42 Folder 7 | Income, veterans, data, 1960, 1970 |
| Box 43 Folder 1-6 | "Labour Force, Participation, and Health," drafts and data, circa 1974-1977 |
| Box 43 Folder 7 | "Measures of Health and Populations Compared," draft, 1980 |
| Box 43 Folder 8 | Medical care expenditures, data, 1950-1960 |
| Box 43 Folder 9 | Medical Care Project, correspondence, 1950 |
| Box 43 Folder 10 | "Mortality, Income, and Schooling," draft, circa 1970s |
| Box 43 Folder 11-12 | Mortality rates and income, draft and data, circa 1970s |
| Box 44 Folder 1 | New Palgrave Dictionary, correspondence, 1985 |
| Box 44 Folder 2 | Race and education, data, 1972 |
| Box 44 Folder 3 | Race and medical care, data and notes, undated |
| Box 44 Folder 4 | Smoking, effects, drafts and data, circa 1970s-1980s |
| Box 44 Folder 5 | "Stock of Health of Persons of Age Groups by Demographic Characteristics," drafts and data, circa 1970s |
| Box 44 Folder 6 | University of Chicago Economics Department, faculty list, 1986 |
| Box 44 Folder 7 | Veterans, data, 1970 |
| Box 44 Folder 8-9 | White males, data, 1970s, undated |
Subseries 4: General |
| Box 45 Folder 1 | Bibliography, 1978 |
| Box 45 Folder 2-4 | Computations, 1978, undated |
| Box 45 Folder 5-7 | Computer cards, 1960, 1977, undated |
| Box 45 Folder 8-9 | CV and list of publications, 1981, undated |
| Box 45 Folder 10-16 | Data, 1960-1977 |
| Box 46 Folder 1-7 | Data, 1960-1977, undated |
| Box 46 Folder 8-9 | Data, demographic, 1978, undated |
| Box 46 Folder 10 | Data, state review, 1978 |
| Box 46 Folder 11-13 | Notes, undated |
| Box 47 | Research notes, index cards, undated |
| Box 48 | Bibliographies, index cards, undated |
| Box 49 | Bibliographies, index cards, and computer cards, undated |
| Box 50 | Bibliographies, index cards, and computer cards, undated |
Subseries 5: Writings by Others |
| Box 51 Folder 1 | American Statistical Association Journal, 1986 |
| Box 51 Folder 2 | American Statistical Association Journal, book reviews, 1952 |
| Box 51 Folder 3 | Baker, Georgianne, "Household Production: A Cultural and Cross-National View," 1979 |
| Box 51 Folder 4 | Beutler, Ivan, and Alma Owen, "New Perspectives on Production in the Home," undated |
| Box 51 Folder 5 | Consumers and consumption, articles, undated |
| Box 51 Folder 6 | Damus, Sylvester, "A Two Part Ramsey-Optimum Railroad Tariff," dissertation abstract, 1979 |
| Box 51 Folder 7 | Davis, Joseph, "Standards and Content of Living," 1945 |
| Box 51 Folder 8 | Firebaugh, Francille, and Ruth Deacon, "The Contribution of Women to Development of the Family and the Economy," 1979 |
| Box 51 Folder 9 | "Government Revenue and Inflation," table of contents, undated |
| Box 51 Folder 10 | Hartley, Peter R., "Two Essays on Rational Expectations," 1979 |
| Box 51 Folder 11 | Heckman, James, "Longitudinal Studies in Labour Economics," 1980 |
| Box 51 Folder 12 | Hill, T.P., "Do-it-yourself and the GDP," 1979 |
| Box 51 Folder 13 | Hogan, Janice, "Household Production in Contemporary Lifestyles," 1979 |
| Box 51 Folder 14 | Household economics, articles, 1930s-1940s |
| Box 51 Folder 15 | Modigliani, Franco, and Richard Brumberg, "Utility Analysis and the Consumption Function," undated |
| Box 51 Folder 16 | Murphy, Martin, "The Measurement and Valuation of Non-market Economic Activities," 1979 |
| Box 51 Folder 17 | Mushkin, Selma, "Why Health Economics?" undated |
| Box 51 Folder 18 | Nickell, Stephen, "Unemployment and the Structure of Labour Costs," 1979 |
| Box 51 Folder 19 | Otsuka, Keijiro, and Yujiro Hayami, "Theories of Share Tenancy: A Critical Survey," 1985 |
| Box 51 Folder 20 | Phipard, Esther, and Hazel Stiebeling, "Adequacy of American Diets," 1949 |
| Box 51 Folder 21 | Productivity and rural sociology, articles, 1955 |
| Box 51 Folder 22 | Projector, Dorothy S., "Survey of Changes in Family Finances," 1968 |
| Box 51 Folder 23 | Reynolds, Roger, "The Joint Determination of Health and Income," with correspondence, 1981 |
| Box 51 Folder 24 | Rosen, Sherwin, "Some Socio-economic determinants of mortality," 1980 |
| Box 51 Folder 25 | Schultz, Paul, "Individual and Per Capita Family Income Inequality," 1981 |
| Box 51 Folder 26 | Sharkey, William Walker, "A Study of Markets Involving Increasing Returns and Uncertain Demand," dissertation abstract, 1973 |
| Box 51 Folder 27 | Staab, Josephine, "The Effect of Classification on the Coefficient of Income Elasticity of Farm Family Expenditures," 1955 |
| Box 51 Folder 28 | Stafford, Frank, "The Use of Time and Technology by Households in the U.S.," 1981 |
| Box 51 Folder 29 | Wages and income, book reviews, 1954 |
| Box 51 Folder 30 | Walker, Kathryn, "Time Measurement and the Value of Nonmarket Household Production," 1979 |
Series II: Personal |
This series is divided into two subseries:
Subseries 1: Papers, contains address books, bills, cards, certificates, clippings, personal correspondence, prints, a passport, and a journal. Of note is the journal, which details faculty politics at Iowa State College circa 1943. Oversized certificates have been moved to Series III. Material spans 1933-1986.
Subseries 2: Photographs, contains photographs of Reid's friends and family from 1904-1990.
Subseries 1: Papers |
| Box 52 Folder 1 | Address book and record book, 1988-1990, undated |
| Box 52 Folder 2 | American Economic Association, Distinguished Fellow Award and correspondence, 1979 |
| Box 52 Folder 3 | Asian prints, undated |
| Box 52 Folder 4 | Bills, 1982-1984 |
| Box 52 Folder 5 | Bowman, Mary Jean, Columbia University Teacher's College Medal, 1982 |
| Box 52 Folder 6 | British passport, 1933 |
| Box 52 Folder 7 | Canadian Federation of University Women, The Chronicle, 1960-1961 |
| Box 52 Folder 8 | Check, 1986 |
| Box 52 Folder 9-12 | Christmas and birthday cards, 1980s, undated |
| Box 52 Folder 13-14 | Clippings, 1982, undated |
| Box 52 Folder 15 | Correspondence, 1980-1986 |
| Box 52 Folder 16 | Gettysburg Address and Bill of Rights, copies, undated |
| Box 53 Folder 1 | Journal, circa 1943 |
| Box 53 Folder 2 | Knight, Frank, memorial speech and papers, 1972 |
| Box 53 Folder 3 | Legends of the North Carolina Coast, Pocahontas Wight Edmunds, with postcards, 1941 |
| Box 53 Folder 4 | Musical recordings, list, undated |
| Box 53 Folder 5 | Postcards, undated |
| Box 53 Folder 6 | USPS postage rates, list, undated |
| Box 53 Folder 7 | University of Chicago, faculty card and library card, undated |
| Box 53 Folder 8 | University of Chicago, University of Manitoba, and other universities, diplomas, 1918-1982 |
| Box 53 Folder 9 | Van Gogh print, undated |
| Box 53 Folder 10 | Who's Who, correspondence, 1983 |
Subseries 2: Photographs |
| Box 53 Folder 11 | Angus, Bonnie, and Anne, circa 1950s |
| Box 53 Folder 12 | Back garden, undated |
| Box 53 Folder 13 | Cabin in the snow, undated |
| Box 53 Folder 14 | Camping with the cats, undated |
| Box 53 Folder 15 | Christmas, 1980 |
| Box 53 Folder 16 | Doris, undated |
| Box 53 Folder 17 | Family, undated |
| Box 53 Folder 18 | Family farmhouse, John Reid, undated |
| Box 53 Folder 19 | Family and friends, undated |
| Box 53 Folder 20 | Gail gets called to the Ontario Bar, 1974 |
| Box 53 Folder 21 | Gerry, 1980 |
| Box 53 Folder 22 | Jack, 1983 |
| Box 53 Folder 23 | Margaret (Jr) with Jordan and Grahame, 1984-1986 |
| Box 53 Folder 24 | The McDonalds, 1973 |
| Box 53 Folder 25 | McFetridge, Peter Reid as a baby, undated |
| Box 53 Folder 26 | McFetridge, Peter Reid marrying Jean, undated |
| Box 53 Folder 27 | Norway, friends or family, 1982-1983 |
| Box 53 Folder 28 | Patricia, 1971 |
| Box 53 Folder 29 | Patricia and Ben's wedding, undated, and with their children, 1984 |
| Box 53 Folder 30 | Plum, David, 1939 |
| Box 53 Folder 31 | Reid, John, and Sarah Clements, 1904 |
| Box 53 Folder 32 | Reid, Margaret, undated |
| Box 53 Folder 33 | Reid, Margaret, and Jack, 1954 |
| Box 53 Folder 34 | Reid, Margaret, and Jack in Vancouver, 1981 |
| Box 53 Folder 35 | Reid, Margaret, and Jack at Beaconhill Lodge, 1984 |
| Box 53 Folder 36 | Tree, 1990 |
| Box 53 Folder 37 | Trinity Lodge, undated |
| Box 53 Folder 38 | Unidentified children, undated |
| Box 53 Folder 39 | Unidentified couple, 1957 |
| Box 53 Folder 40 | Unidentified gatherings, undated |
| Box 53 Folder 41 | Unidentified man with President Reagan, undated |
| Box 53 Folder 42 | Unidentified people, 1948-1961 |
| Box 53 Folder 43-44 | Unidentified people, undated |
| Box 53 Folder 45 | Van Haute, Stephanie, undated |
| Box 53 Folder 46 | Van Haute, Stephanie with David and Gillian, 1984 |
| Box 53 Folder 47 | Wilcox, Bob and Margaret, 1942 |
Series III: Oversize |
This series contains clippings, certificates, and research data. It includes a copy of Reid's book Consumers and the Market. Newspaper clippings are in poor condition. They relate to controversies at the University of Illinois during Howard Bowen's tenure as Dean of the College of Commerce and Business Administration. Bowen was forced to resign in 1950 and his departure was followed by a wave of resignations by economics faculty. A copy of resignation letter written by chair Everett E. Hagen can be found in Series I, Subseries 1, under "University of Illinois." This series covers 1938-1977.
| Box 54 Folder 1 | Alphabetical file, blank, undated |
| Box 54 Folder 2 | Computations, circa 1975 |
| Box 54 Folder 3 | Data, 1961 |
| Box 54 Folder 4-5 | Data, 1965-1974 |
| Box 54 Folder 6 | Data, undated |
| Box 54 Folder 7 | Family expenditure and consumption, data, 1950-1970 |
| Box 54 Folder 8 | Farm data, circa 1940s |
| Box 54 Folder 9 | University of Manitoba, Honourary Doctor of Laws, 1960 |
| Box 54 Folder 10 | Who's Who of Intellectuals, Certificate of Inclusion, 1977 |
| Box 55 Folder 1-4 | Champaign-Urbana Courier and University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign student newspapers, clippings, 1950-1951 |
| Box 55 Folder 5 | Reid, Consumers and the Market, 1938 |