 From Shame to Game in One Hundred Years: An Economic Model of the Rise in Premarital Sex and its De-StigmatizationNo 155, 2009 Meeting Papers from Society for Economic Dynamics Abstract: Parents socialize their children about many things, including sex. Socialization is costly. It uses scare resources, such as time and effort. Parents weigh the marginal gains from socialization against its costs. Parents at the lower end of the social-economic scale indoctrinate their daughters less than others about the perils of premarital sex, because the latter will lose less from an out-of-wedlock birth. Modern contraceptives have profoundly affected the calculus for instilling sexual mores, leading to a de-stigmatization of sex. As the odds of becoming pregnant from premarital sex decline there is less need to inculcate sexual mores. Technology affects culture. Date: 2009 There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:red:sed009:155 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in 2009 Meeting Papers from Society for Economic Dynamics Society for Economic Dynamics Marina Azzimonti Department of Economics Stonybrook University 10 Nicolls Road Stonybrook NY 11790 USA. Contact information at EDIRC. |
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