When Someone Stops Mowing His Own Lawn and Hires a Lawn

question 14

Multiple Choice

When someone stops mowing his own lawn and hires a lawn service to mow it for him, what happens to GDP? (Assume that the lawn service reports its income to the IRS.)

• A)Nothing; the same lawns are being mowed, so production has not changed.
• B)It rises because GDP includes the value of the additional leisure time that the person gets by hiring someone else.
• C)It rises because when the person mows his own lawn it is non-market production that is not counted.
• D)It falls because hiring a lawn service reduced the amount of other goods that the person could purchase.

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