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Marina Adshade
Economics Professor, Dalhousie University
Marina Adshade writes the blog Dollars and Sex for Big Think. She is an assistant professor in the department of economics at Dalhousie University and teaches a popular undergraduate course called the Economics of Sex and Love. She has a Ph.D. in economics from Queen’s University.
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Compare your level of romance to the national average for 48 different countries, and see where in the world you would best fit in romantically.
Is the rise in boob jobs and other elective surgeries a sign of renewed consumer confidence, or a harbinger of continued economic malaise?
Is the high cost of marriage in Egypt, which has sexually disenfranchised many young men, helping to fuel the ongoing uprising?
How the divide in wealth between the rich and the poor is being maintained through marriage.
Did you know that in the world of Wikipedia the word “marriage” is classified as a “contentious issue?” The page has been protected, on and off, for the last four […]
Do anti-prostitution laws discriminate against women near the bottom of the income distribution while ignoring similar behavior by women near the top?
The US has a huge population of sex offenders to keep track of – a number greater than the entire population of Alaska.
A recent article in USA Today suggests that infidelity is rampant among young couples.
The decline in birth rates in 2009 isn’t a story about young women learning about life with a baby from a reality show. It is a story about young women who know all too well what life with a baby is like.
If sex workers are effectively used to manipulate economic decision-makers then, just like other forms of corruption, this will lead to poor economic outcomes.
The global financial crisis emptied the pockets of European governments. Although the Netherlands had it easy compared to some of its neighbors, the government still ran a deficit of 6% […]
Sometimes I find myself feeling sorry for Thomas Robert Malthus. You remember Malthus, he was the one who argued that humanity was destined to remain in poverty because every time […]
People choose mates that are very similar to themselves in terms of education and income. They don't tend to select partners who bring vastly different skill sets to the marriage.
By now most of us have seen the 1950’s “The Good Wife’s Guide“—the one that tells women that a “Good Wife” is one who acknowledges her husband as master of […]
Niko Bell says that finding a man is not as easy for Chinese women as we might think.
Pre-industrial societies with polygyny as the dominant marriage institution consume less alcohol than those with monogamy.
Recently I have found myself in trouble twice for my choice of words. The first time was for calling sex workers “prostitutes,” and the second time was for calling prostitutes […]
The most common form of domestic terrorism in the U.S. is violent attacks on abortion clinics. Between 1973 and 2003, over 300 abortion providers were the target of acts of […]
Age may matter, but it is only one of several factors that are important when you are looking for love.
If you manage to find a match through an online dating site, that match is more likely to commit to meet if they have paid a fee for the service.