TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús
AU  - Greenwood, Jeremy
AU  - Guner, Nezih
        TI  - From Shame to Game in One Hundred Years: An Economic Model of the Rise in Premarital Sex and its De-Stigmatization
        PY  - 2010/Jan/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 4708
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp4708
        AB  - Societies socialize children about many things, including sex. Socialization is costly. It uses scarce resources, such as time and effort. Parents weigh the marginal gains from socialization against its costs. Those at the lower end of the socioeconomic scale indoctrinate their daughters less than others about the perils of premarital sex, because the latter will lose less from an out-of-wedlock birth. Modern contraceptives have profoundly affected the calculus for instilling sexual mores, leading to a de-stigmatization of sex. As contraception has become more effective there is less need for parents, churches and states to inculcate sexual mores. Technology affects culture.
        KW  - stigmatization
KW  - socialization
KW  - children
KW  - church and state
KW  - contraception
KW  - culture
KW  - parents
KW  - premarital sex
KW  - out-of-wedlock births
KW  - technological progress
        ER  -