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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 […]
Asymmetric information creates a moral hazard problem if one party in a transaction cannot observe the (possibly bad) behaviour of the other party. It was moral hazard that caused the […]
When searching for a mate online, singles are more likely to initiate contact with other online singles who are more attractive than themselves. When the market clears, so to speak, […]
I have theory, it is a personal theory not quite backed up by empirical evidence, that one of the reasons so many people are single is that they are poor […]
In 2008, 41,269 people in the U.S. were diagnosed with HIV, an increase of 8% from only three years earlier. Known infections make up only 75% of total infections, leaving […]
Earlier this week we talked about whether or not a brothel for women would be profitable. In that post, I argued that it is men’s willingness to engage in sex […]
A former New Zealand Member of Parliament is setting out on a new business venture that she feels will be very popular—a brothel for women. She has even done her […]
It’s a good day for porn in the red states of America. According to a new study in this month’s Evolution and Human Behavior, researchers expect a significant increase in […]
Remember The Who, talkin’ ’bout their generation? Maybe to a 20-year-old guy in the 1960s, the idea of wanting to die before getting old sounded pretty cool. But, you would […]
A new paper that finds that male professors who are "hot" are financially rewarded, while female professors who are "hot" are not.
College-educated women are gaining on their husbands in terms of both education and income. This should increase their power in the home.
People who live in religious neighborhoods buy just as much pornography as people everywhere else. They're just less likely to subscribe to an online porn site on a Sunday.
We all know that when it comes to buying a house the three most important factors to consider are location, location, and location. There is anecdotal evidence that if you […]
New research indicates that rising inequality between the rich and poor—and the need to keep up with one's neighbors—is driving up the divorce rate.