From shame to game in one hundred years: An economic model of the rise in premarital sex and its de-stigmatization

Journal of the European Economic Association

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 25-61

  Fernández Villaverde, Jesús ^a   Greenwood, Jeremy ^a   Guner, Nezih ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

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EID: 84892465756     PISSN: 15424766     EISSN: 15424774     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jeea.12043     Document Type: Article

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