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Teenage Virgins II
freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com - 4/16/2009
Teenage Virgins II
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In my last post, I argued that (the truly excellent show) Friday Night Lights might unwittingly be exacerbating the mistaken idea that the vast majority of high-schoolers have sex. I worried that this discrepancy between what adolescents believe (virgins are rare) and the truth (high-school ...

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Division of Labour:  Conformity, Virginity, and Booze

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Conformity, Virginity, and Booze
Division of Labour — Ian Ayres offers an interesting post on conformity: people tend to conform to what they think others are doing, and he stresses the implications for public service announcements about teen sex and drug use. In a similar vein, here's Jeffrey Miron and Elina Tetelbaum on ...

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