Sex, Drugs and Economics

Authentic, hand-crafted artisanal blog posts on economics and other stuff. Warning: May contain traces of nuts.

Monday, 31 March 2014

Is sex like driving? HIV prevention and risk compensation

The title of this post is the title of a paper last month in the Journal of Development Economics (ungated version here ), by Nicholas Wils...

Sunday, 23 March 2014

Cornering the market for Christmas toys - an application of elasticities

This week in ECON100 (and next week in tutorials) the class is covering elasticities. So, I thought it might be timely to talk about this vi...

Sunday, 16 March 2014

Why are weddings so expensive?

This Washington Post blog post by Caitlin Dewey caught my eye, talking about a US$99 wedding dress. This lies in stark contrast to weddings...

Saturday, 8 March 2014

Safer cars and offsetting behaviour: NASCAR edition

Classes started this week, and tutorials start next week. In ECON100 and ECON110, among other things at the start of the paper we cover the ...

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