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Dollars and Sex

Dollars and Sex

By Marina Adshade

How Economics Influences Sex and Love. Chronicle Books, 2013.

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A brief summary of Dollars and Sex

An insightful, research-backed text that draws on hard statistics and data to develop previously unrecognized links between sex, love, and economics—demonstrating the delicate web that connects all three.

Key insights in Dollars and Sex

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What do you get from this book? Uncover the secret relationship between economics, sex, and marriage
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Premarital sex has risen as a result of changes to education and increased employment wages
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Few men and lots of binge drinking leads to promiscuity on college campuses and within the general population
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Online dating is a “thick” marketplace made up of buyers, sellers, and inflation, with adjustments made for “thinner” markets
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Marriage is an economic contract providing both parties with advantages their single counterparts cannot easily obtain
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Centuries-old laws governing monogamy and polygyny ensure the poor get a fair chance to find a suitable mate
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Infidelity is dependent upon a variety of factors that can change with time
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“Human capital” has changed the dynamics of relationships, giving women more “bargaining power”
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Life expectancy and income inequality play a large role in developing “age of consent” laws
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Teenage sex and abortion rates are dropping, but differences in race prove not all things are equal
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Older adults are getting married more frequently, but STD rates are also rising among them
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Selected critiques in brief
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Who should read Dollars and Sex

Economists • psychologists • sociologists • sex and economics educators • college students • anyone interested in the history of marriage and economics

About the author of Dollars and Sex

Economist Marina Adshade is a professor at the University of British Columbia, where her course the “Economics of Sex and Love” has earned her international recognition. Her popular blog, “Dollars and Sex,” generated a book by the same name. Adshade is a staff writer for Canadian Business Magazine and has also written for the Wall Street Journal.

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