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Pornography and Marriage

Joseph Price, Economics

A number of studies have documented the harmful affects of pornography on marriage. This project will exploit differences across states in the diffusion of the internet and laws governing obscenity to estimate the causal impact of pornography on physical intimacy in marriage, adultery, and divorce.