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INDEX
The index entries below are as they appeared in the print version of the book and are included here for your reference. Please use the search function on your eReader to search for terms of interest.
A
Abortions
Abstinence-only programs
Affairs. See Extramarital sex
Age
of consent
differences
Assortative mating
Attractiveness
assessing
effects of
B
Best-friend effect
Big Mac Index
Birth control. See also Condoms
effects of availability of
history of
male
pill
Births
historic rates of
out-of-wedlock
to teens
Blow Job Index
C
Casanova, Giacomo
Cheating. See Extramarital sex
Children
from extramarital infidelity
in industrialized nations
before marriage
within marriage
sexual knowledge and
Cohort effect
College campuses, promiscuity on
Comparative advantage
Condoms
Contraceptives. See Birth control
Contrast effects
Coolidge Effect
D
Dating, traditional. See also Online dating
Discrimination
Divorce
age differences and
education and
housing prices and
income and
Internet use and
among lottery winners
rate
reducing chance of
risk aversion and
unemployment and
Drinking
Dynamic inconsistency
E
Economic indicators
plastic surgery as
sex toys and lubricants as
skirt lengths as
Extramarital sex
age and
benefits of
contracts and
costs of
defining
dynamic inconsistency and
education and
happiness and
income and
Internet use and
power and
prevalence of
with sex workers
G
Gay men. See Same-sex relationships
H
HIV/AIDS
Hollywood marriages
I
Incarceration
International marriages
Interracial marriages
J
Justin Bieber Effect
L
Lesbians. See Same-sex relationships
Life expectancy
Lottery winners
M
Male birth control (MBC)
Malthus, Thomas
Margin, extensive vs. intensive
Market power, perceptions of
Markets, thick vs. thin
Marriage. See also Divorce; Monogamy; Polygamy
age at
age differences in
attitude toward, of young adults
bargaining power in
changes in
comparative advantage and
economic class and
economy and
education and
frequency of sex in
future of
happiness and
history of
in Hollywood
incarceration and
as an institution
as insurance
international
interracial
living together before
among lottery winners
as a market
promiscuity and
prostitution vs.
rates
reasons for
reservation value and
rethinking traditional
same-sex
search for mate for
Men
height of
number of sexual partners desired by
preferences of
and random sex with strangers
risk and
Monogamy. See also Marriage
alcohol consumption and
female inequality and
history of
institutionalized
mathematical model for
myth of
O
Older adults
Online dating
age and
attractiveness and
deception and
decision making and
divorce and
as a market
paying for
political beliefs and
religious beliefs and
signaling and
social networking sites vs.
Opportunity costs
Orgasms, faking
Ovulation, effects of
P
Pareto efficiency
Penis size
Plastic surgery, as economic indicator
Political beliefs
Polygamy. See also Marriage
Preferences, revealed
Pregnancy
alcohol prices and
income level and
teen
Premarital sex. See also Promiscuity
costs of
education and
effects of
income level and
stigma of
Price elasticity
Professors, attractiveness of
Promiscuity. See also Extramarital sex; Premarital sex
on college campuses
costs of
drinking and
education and
among gay men
happiness and
marriage and
national income and
among teenagers
Prostitution. See Sex work
Race. See also Interracial marriages
preferences for
STDs and
teen sexual behavior and
Religious beliefs
Reservation value
Risk aversion
S
Same-sex relationships
acceptance of
between adolescents
bargaining power in
education and
finances and
happiness and
promiscuity and
similarities of, to opposite-sex relationships
Sexual arousal, effects of
Sexual partners, desired number of
Sex work
condom use and
definition of
education and
for female consumers
marriage vs.
stigma of
swinging and
Signaling
Skirt lengths, as economic index
Social networking sites
STDs
age and
alcohol prices and
race and
sex work and
testing for
Strangers, sex with
Swinging
T
Technological change, effects of
Teen sex
abstinence-only programs and
age of consent and
best-friend effect and
culture and
effects of
legislation and
male birth control and
pregnancy and
statistics on
STDs and
Transsexuals
V
Virginity, value of
W
Weight, effects of
Women
discrimination against
fashion choices by
married names of
number of sexual partners desired by
obese
preferences of
and random sex with strangers
risk and
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Writing a book is like having a baby and, as you probably know, making a baby is much more rewarding with the support of caring community. My community is made up of those who were there for the conception, when it was all just fo
r fun in New Orleans: Taggert Brooks, Brooks Kaiser, Daniel de Munnik, Char Weise, Oleksiy Kryvtsov, and Deirdre McCloskey.
In the early days, my wonderful students in my Economics of Sex and Love class identified the early signs that a book might be in my future. The fine people at Big Think, Paul Hoffman to be precise, confirmed the positive result—I was going to be a writer. Thanks to the platforms and support provided to me by my many blog editors—David Hirschman and Daniel Honan at Big Think, Rob Gilroy at the Globe and Mail, and Jordan Timm at Canadian Business magazine—I was able to expand my audience and benefit from the thousands of comments made by readers. The experience was enriched by those who sent me research: Ryan Davies, Frances Wooley, Shoshana Grossbard, James Fenske, Anatoliy Gruzd, Niko Bell, Teresa MacInnis, and Micheal Margolis.
When it came time to find a doula I was lucky enough to find the wonderful Danielle Svetcov who brought with her Elizabeth Fisher, Jim Levine, and the rest of the team at Levine Greenberg. Many of my friends were there to the end, especially Theresa Cyrus and Nancy McMeekan. My team of midwives, editors Jennifer Lambert, Leigh Haber, Lisa Tauber, Jane Warren, and copy editor Janet Silver Ghent, made certain the delivery was as perfect (and painless!) as possible along with those behind the scenes making my baby beautiful—designers, publicists, and sales agents.
This new baby of mine has a family, and one that has been patient through the sleepless nights—Grace Adshade and Pamela and Donald Rose have been particularity welcoming—and while Regina and Duncan Adshade never expected such a demanding sibling, I hope they share my joy in its delivery.
DR. MARINA ADSHADE teaches economics at the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, Canada. In 2008, she launched an undergraduate course titled Economics of Sex and Love, which invited her students to approach questions of sex and love through an economist’s lens. The course was an instant hit, and led to the launch of the blog, Dollars and Sex, which can be found at MarinaAdshade.com.