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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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Even when you control for cultural differences, lesbians in the workplace still make significantly more money, on average, than heterosexual women.
Can watching the market for sex toys help predict a recession?
The “Just Say No” campaign in the late 1980s increased the severity of sentencing for drug offenders in the U.S. Since that time, particularly since the mid-1990’s, incarceration rates have […]
If the transmission rate of HIV is low, then how have so many young women on the continent become infected?
Is lowering the gonorrhea rate worth risking an increase in HIV?
Age-of-consent laws presume that adolescents lack the maturity to make healthy decisions when it comes to sex.
The Chinese may not talk about sex, but they certainly do it. In fact, they probably do it just as much as the rest of us. What is obvious though […]