colleges and universities in the United States have signed a petition asking the government to lower the minimum drinking age because they believe that a minimum age of 21 has led to dangerous behavior among underage students who drink covertly to avoid punishment.
USING SEX TO PAY YOUR WAY THROUGH COLLEGE
Many years ago, when I was an undergraduate student, I frequented a local bar with my friends that we liked because it had cheap Long Island iced tea. It also happened to have strippers, which none of us paid much attention to. (We really were there just for the cheap drinks.) That all ended one afternoon when one of the guys in our group looked up in horror as a girl stepped onto the stage; he slunk into his chair and whispered, â That â s my lab partner! â
Paying your way through school in the sex trades is probably more common than you think; prostitution, stripping, pimping, answering phones at escort agencies, and being drivers/security for sex workers are just a few jobs that students will do to help pay their way through school.
Researchers at Leeds University confirm this view. They spent a year interviewing three hundred British lap dancers and found that one in four have completed a university degree and one in three are engaged in some form of education (including 6 percent who are lap dancing their way through a postgraduate degree). Another, by the Berlin Studies Centre, reports on interviews with 3,200 students that found that 4 percent had used sex to pay for their education. Furthermore, 33 percent of students in Berlin, 29 percent of students in Paris, and 18.5 percent of students in Kiev would consider using sex to pay for school.
Websites in the United States that cater to matching both men and women with men who are looking to be â sugar daddies â offer special programs for students, including upgraded accounts if prospective escorts use a studente-mail account as their contact. One such site in New York claims that 35 percent of its eight hundred thousand escorts are university students paying their way through school on their backs.
If promiscuity has risks that can seriously affect a student â s lifetime income and marriage prospects, participating in the sex trades adds a whole new dimension that, probably, explains why sex work pays so much more than other unskilled jobs that students might consider.
There is another, economic, factor that has contributed to excessive drinking: alcohol prices. Alcohol prices not only influence how people consume, but also how they behave when they are under the influence.
DOLLAR DRINKS AND RISKY SEX
In December 2007, the city of Halifax, Nova Scotia, decided that it had had just about enough rowdiness from the students and imposed a citywide minimum drink price, bringing an end to popular dollar drink nights in the bars. The law was intended to reduce partying (and fighting) when students poured out onto the streets after the bars closed. But economic research suggests that laws that increase the price of drinks can also reduce risky sexual behavior. I wonder, though, does it really reduce risky sexual behavior of college students in particular?
SEXY PROFESSORS IN A HORMONALLY CHARGED CLASSROOM
Female and male professors alike won â t be surprised, mostly because they were all students once too, that while students may look like they are hanging on to their every word they are also judging how hot (or not) their professor is. In fact, a popular online professor-rating website lets students rate their professor â s hotness, along with assessments of fairness and teaching ability.
Using data from this website, Canadian economists Anindya Sen and Frances Woolley find that male professors who are hot are financially rewarded, while female professors who are hot are not.
Woolley and Sen consider the productivity and hotness ratings of economics professors in Ontario and find that male professors who are rated as â
USING SEX TO PAY YOUR WAY THROUGH COLLEGE
Many years ago, when I was an undergraduate student, I frequented a local bar with my friends that we liked because it had cheap Long Island iced tea. It also happened to have strippers, which none of us paid much attention to. (We really were there just for the cheap drinks.) That all ended one afternoon when one of the guys in our group looked up in horror as a girl stepped onto the stage; he slunk into his chair and whispered, â That â s my lab partner! â
Paying your way through school in the sex trades is probably more common than you think; prostitution, stripping, pimping, answering phones at escort agencies, and being drivers/security for sex workers are just a few jobs that students will do to help pay their way through school.
Researchers at Leeds University confirm this view. They spent a year interviewing three hundred British lap dancers and found that one in four have completed a university degree and one in three are engaged in some form of education (including 6 percent who are lap dancing their way through a postgraduate degree). Another, by the Berlin Studies Centre, reports on interviews with 3,200 students that found that 4 percent had used sex to pay for their education. Furthermore, 33 percent of students in Berlin, 29 percent of students in Paris, and 18.5 percent of students in Kiev would consider using sex to pay for school.
Websites in the United States that cater to matching both men and women with men who are looking to be â sugar daddies â offer special programs for students, including upgraded accounts if prospective escorts use a studente-mail account as their contact. One such site in New York claims that 35 percent of its eight hundred thousand escorts are university students paying their way through school on their backs.
If promiscuity has risks that can seriously affect a student â s lifetime income and marriage prospects, participating in the sex trades adds a whole new dimension that, probably, explains why sex work pays so much more than other unskilled jobs that students might consider.
There is another, economic, factor that has contributed to excessive drinking: alcohol prices. Alcohol prices not only influence how people consume, but also how they behave when they are under the influence.
DOLLAR DRINKS AND RISKY SEX
In December 2007, the city of Halifax, Nova Scotia, decided that it had had just about enough rowdiness from the students and imposed a citywide minimum drink price, bringing an end to popular dollar drink nights in the bars. The law was intended to reduce partying (and fighting) when students poured out onto the streets after the bars closed. But economic research suggests that laws that increase the price of drinks can also reduce risky sexual behavior. I wonder, though, does it really reduce risky sexual behavior of college students in particular?
SEXY PROFESSORS IN A HORMONALLY CHARGED CLASSROOM
Female and male professors alike won â t be surprised, mostly because they were all students once too, that while students may look like they are hanging on to their every word they are also judging how hot (or not) their professor is. In fact, a popular online professor-rating website lets students rate their professor â s hotness, along with assessments of fairness and teaching ability.
Using data from this website, Canadian economists Anindya Sen and Frances Woolley find that male professors who are hot are financially rewarded, while female professors who are hot are not.
Woolley and Sen consider the productivity and hotness ratings of economics professors in Ontario and find that male professors who are rated as â
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