When someone stops mowing his lawn and hires a teenager for cash that is unreported, what happens to GDP?
A) It rises because a nonmarket activity is now a legal market activity.
B) It rises because GDP includes the value of the additional leisure time that dad gets by hiring a noncitizen.
C) It falls because production by noncitizens is counted in their home country, not in the United States.
D) It probably does not change. Production has shifted from nonmarket to the underground economy and neither is counted.
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