ECN 340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Occupational Hazard, Root Beer, Teenage Pregnancy

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Economics
• Course: ECN 340
• Professor: Thomas Barbiero

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Lower price (don"t have to wine and dine ) Married women would have more competition would have to offer more sex! Price will go down, b/c less customers. Which prostitutes would offer better service (including safer services ) if prostitution were legal: streetwalkers or prostitutes at a fixed address: applied economics, fixed address offer better service b/c customers can come back (?) Sex is amenable to economic analysis, even if there are limitations. Men and women have downward sloping demand curves and upward sloping supply curves for sexual experiences. Economic analysis does not tell us how sexual tastes and preferences are derived. People often require long-term commitments be made before they become involved in sexual activity. Parents, brace yourselves. with these words oprah winfrey introduced. America to the shocking news of the teenage oral sex craze . Study, conducted by researchers at johns hopkins bayview medical center in.