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Dollars and Sex

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by Marina Adshade


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  INDEX

  The index entries below are as they appeared in the print version of the book and are included here for your reference. Please use the search function on your eReader to search for terms of interest.

  A

  Abortions

  Abstinence-only programs

  Affairs. See Extramarital sex

  Age

  of consent

  differences

  Assortative mating

  Attractiveness

  assessing />
  effects of

  B

  Best-friend effect

  Big Mac Index

  Birth control. See also Condoms

  effects of availability of

  history of

  male

  pill

  Births

  historic rates of

  out-of-wedlock

  to teens

  Blow Job Index

  C

  Casanova, Giacomo

  Cheating. See Extramarital sex

  Children

  from extramarital infidelity

  in industrialized nations

  before marriage

  within marriage

  sexual knowledge and

  Cohabitation

  Cohort effect

  College campuses, promiscuity on

  Comparative advantage

  Condoms

  Contraceptives. See Birth control

  Contrast effects

  Coolidge Effect

  D

  Dating, traditional. See also Online dating

  Discrimination

  Divorce

  age differences and

  education and

  housing prices and

  income and

  Internet use and

  among lottery winners

  rate

  reducing chance of

  risk aversion and

  unemployment and

  Drinking

  Dynamic inconsistency

  E

  Economic indicators

  plastic surgery as

  sex toys and lubricants as

  skirt lengths as

  Extramarital sex

  age and

  benefits of

  contracts and

  costs of

  defining

  dynamic inconsistency and

  education and

  happiness and

  income and

  Internet use and

  power and

  prevalence of

  with sex workers

  G

  Gay men. See Same-sex relationships

  H

  HIV/AIDS

  Hollywood marriages

  I

  Incarceration

  International marriages

  Interracial marriages

  J

  Justin Bieber Effect

  L

  Lesbians. See Same-sex relationships

  Life expectancy

  Lottery winners

  M

  Male birth control (MBC)

  Malthus, Thomas

  Margin, extensive vs. intensive

  Market power, perceptions of

  Markets, thick vs. thin

  Marriage. See also Divorce; Monogamy; Polygamy

  age at

  age differences in

  attitude toward, of young adults

  bargaining power in

  changes in

  comparative advantage and

  economic class and

  economy and

  education and

  frequency of sex in

  future of

  happiness and

  history of

  in Hollywood

  incarceration and

  as an institution

  as insurance

  international

  interracial

  living together before

  among lottery winners

  as a market

  promiscuity and

  prostitution vs.

  rates

  reasons for

  reservation value and

  rethinking traditional

  same-sex

  search for mate for

  Men

  height of

  number of sexual partners desired by

  preferences of

  and random sex with strangers

  risk and

  Monogamy. See also Marriage

  alcohol consumption and

  female inequality and

  history of

  institutionalized

  mathematical model for

  myth of

  O

  Older adults

  Online dating

  age and

  attractiveness and

  deception and

  decision making and

  divorce and

  as a market

  paying for

  political beliefs and

  religious beliefs and

  signaling and

  social networking sites vs.

  Opportunity costs

  Orgasms, faking

  Ovulation, effects of

  P

  Pareto efficiency

  Penis size

  Plastic surgery, as economic indicator

  Political beliefs

  Polygamy. See also Marriage

  Preferences, revealed

  Pregnancy

  alcohol prices and

  income level and

  teen

  Premarital sex. See also Promiscuity

  costs of

  education and

  effects of

  income level and

  stigma of

  Price elasticity

  Professors, attractiveness of

  Promiscuity. See also Extramarital sex; Premarital sex

  on college campuses

  costs of

  drinking and

  education and

  among gay men

  happiness and

  marriage and

  national income and

  among teenagers

  Prostitution. See Sex work

  R

  Race. See also Interracial marriages

  preferences for

  STDs and

  teen sexual behavior and

  Religious beliefs

  Reservation value

  Risk aversion

  S

  Same-sex relationships

  acceptance of

  between adolescents

  bargaining power in

  education and

  finances and

  happiness and

  promiscuity and

  similarities of, to opposite-sex relationships

  Sexual arousal, effects of

  Sexual partners, desired number of

  Sex work

  condom use and

  definition of

  education and

  for female consumers

  marriage vs.

  stigma of

  swinging and

  Signaling

  Skirt lengths, as economic index

  Social networking sites

  STDs

  age and

  alcohol prices and

  race and

  sex work and

  testing for

  Strangers, sex with

  Swinging

  T

  Technological change, effects of

  Teen sex

  abstinence-only programs and

  age of consent and

  best-friend effect and

  culture and

  effects of

  legislation and

  male birth control and

  pregnancy and

  statistics on

  STDs and

  Transsexuals

  V

  Virginity, value of

  W

  Weight, effects of

  Women

  discrimination against

  fashion choices by

  married names of

  number of sexual partners desired by

  obese

  preferences of

  and random sex with strangers

  risk and

  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

  Writing a book is like having a baby and, as you probably know, making a baby is much more rewarding with the support of caring community. My community is made up of those who were there for the conception, when it was all just fo
r fun in New Orleans: Taggert Brooks, Brooks Kaiser, Daniel de Munnik, Char Weise, Oleksiy Kryvtsov, and Deirdre McCloskey.

  In the early days, my wonderful students in my Economics of Sex and Love class identified the early signs that a book might be in my future. The fine people at Big Think, Paul Hoffman to be precise, confirmed the positive result—I was going to be a writer. Thanks to the platforms and support provided to me by my many blog editors—David Hirschman and Daniel Honan at Big Think, Rob Gilroy at the Globe and Mail, and Jordan Timm at Canadian Business magazine—I was able to expand my audience and benefit from the thousands of comments made by readers. The experience was enriched by those who sent me research: Ryan Davies, Frances Wooley, Shoshana Grossbard, James Fenske, Anatoliy Gruzd, Niko Bell, Teresa MacInnis, and Micheal Margolis.

  When it came time to find a doula I was lucky enough to find the wonderful Danielle Svetcov who brought with her Elizabeth Fisher, Jim Levine, and the rest of the team at Levine Greenberg. Many of my friends were there to the end, especially Theresa Cyrus and Nancy McMeekan. My team of midwives, editors Jennifer Lambert, Leigh Haber, Lisa Tauber, Jane Warren, and copy editor Janet Silver Ghent, made certain the delivery was as perfect (and painless!) as possible along with those behind the scenes making my baby beautiful—designers, publicists, and sales agents.

  This new baby of mine has a family, and one that has been patient through the sleepless nights—Grace Adshade and Pamela and Donald Rose have been particularity welcoming—and while Regina and Duncan Adshade never expected such a demanding sibling, I hope they share my joy in its delivery.

  DR. MARINA ADSHADE teaches economics at the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, Canada. In 2008, she launched an undergraduate course titled Economics of Sex and Love, which invited her students to approach questions of sex and love through an economist’s lens. The course was an instant hit, and led to the launch of the blog, Dollars and Sex, which can be found at MarinaAdshade.com.

 

 

 


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