From Shame to Game in One Hundred Years: An Economic Model of the Rise in Premarital Sex and its De-Stigmatization / Jesús Fernández-Villaverde, Jeremy Greenwood, Nezih Guner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Greenwood, Jeremy.

Guner, Nezih.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w15677.

NBER working paper series no. w15677

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Other Title:

From Shame to Game in One Hundred Years

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2010.

Summary:

Societies socialize children about sex. This is done in the presence of peer-group effects, which may encourage undesirable behavior. Parents want the best for their children. Still, they weigh the marginal gains from socializing their children against its costs. Churches and states may stigmatize sex, both because of a concern about the welfare of their flocks and the need to control the cost of charity associated with out-of-wedlock births. Modern contraceptives have profoundly affected the calculus for instilling sexual mores. As contraception has improved there is less need for parents, churches and states to inculcate sexual mores. Technology affects culture.

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Print version record

January 2010.