Add to ORKGPublicado por Economia de Avant Garde. 2009. UC3M Working paper. nº 9In 1900 only six percent of unwed females engaged in premarital sex. Now, three quarters do. The sexual revolution is studied here using an equilibrium matching model, where the costs of premarital sex fall over time due to technological improvement in contraceptives. Individuals di¤er in their desire for sex. Given this, people tend to circulate in social groups where prospective partners share their views on premarital sex. To the extent that a society`s customs and mores reffect the aggregation of decentralized decision making by its members, shifts in the economic environment may induce changes in what is perceived as culture
In this article long-term changes in homogamy during industrialization are studied. According to the...
In the late 1700s, condoms were luxury items for the affluent in Western Europe, but by the 1970s, t...
In this article long-term changes in homogamy during industrialization are studied. According to the...
In 1900 only six percent of unwed females engaged in premarital sex. Now, three quarters do. The sex...
In 1900 only 6 % of unwed teenage females engaged in premarital sex. Now, three quarters do. The sex...
A society is characterized by the common attitudes and behavior of its members. Such behavior refle...
In 1900 only six percent of unwed females engaged in premarital sex. Now, three quarters do. The sex...
Societies socialize children about many things, including sex. Socialization is costly. It uses scar...
Modern contraceptive technology is more than a technical advance: it has brought about a true social...
Social norms are inuenced by the technological environment that a society faces. Behavioral modes re...
Societies socialize children about sex. This is done in the presence of peer-group effects, which ma...
The sexual revolution is perceived as a shift in sexual attitudes beginning in the mid 1960’s and en...
The 19th and 20th centuries saw a transformation in contraceptive technologies and their take up. Th...
In this article long-term changes in homogamy during industrialization are studied. According to the...
In this article long-term changes in homogamy during industrialization are studied. According to the...
In the late 1700s, condoms were luxury items for the affluent in Western Europe, but by the 1970s, t...
In this article long-term changes in homogamy during industrialization are studied. According to the...
In 1900 only six percent of unwed females engaged in premarital sex. Now, three quarters do. The sex...
In 1900 only 6 % of unwed teenage females engaged in premarital sex. Now, three quarters do. The sex...
A society is characterized by the common attitudes and behavior of its members. Such behavior refle...
In 1900 only six percent of unwed females engaged in premarital sex. Now, three quarters do. The sex...
Societies socialize children about many things, including sex. Socialization is costly. It uses scar...
Modern contraceptive technology is more than a technical advance: it has brought about a true social...
Social norms are inuenced by the technological environment that a society faces. Behavioral modes re...
Societies socialize children about sex. This is done in the presence of peer-group effects, which ma...
The sexual revolution is perceived as a shift in sexual attitudes beginning in the mid 1960’s and en...
The 19th and 20th centuries saw a transformation in contraceptive technologies and their take up. Th...
In this article long-term changes in homogamy during industrialization are studied. According to the...
In this article long-term changes in homogamy during industrialization are studied. According to the...
In the late 1700s, condoms were luxury items for the affluent in Western Europe, but by the 1970s, t...
In this article long-term changes in homogamy during industrialization are studied. According to the...