Opposite-sex coworkers and marital infidelity

Masanori Kuroki

Economics Letters, 2013, vol. 118, issue 1, 71-73

Abstract: This paper examines if workplace sex ratios are associated with marital infidelity. I find that the likelihood of ever having been sexually unfaithful to a partner increases with a fraction of opposite-sex coworkers for men but not for women.

Keywords: Infidelity; Sexual behavior; Female labor force participation; Marriage; Divorce (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J12 J21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2012.09.023

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