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From Shame to Game in One Hundred Years: An Economic Model of the Rise in Premarital Sex and its De-Stigmatization

Year: 2010

Type: report

Abstract: 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.

Source: National Bureau of Economic Research

DOI: 10.3386/w15677

Authors: Jesús Fernández-Villaverde, Jeremy Greenwood, Nezih Guner

Institutions: National Bureau of Economic Research, University of Pennsylvania, Barcelona School of Economics

Language: English

Topic: Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes

Subfield: History

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funder: FP7 Ideas: European Research Council

Award: Changing Families: Causes, Consequences and Challenges for Public Policy

OpenAlex ID: W2102216183

Cites: 104

Cited by: 32

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