Marina Adshade

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. 

The experiences of transgendered men demonstrates that gender is still an issue in the workplace.
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?