July 3, 2008
substitutions aren’t necessarily a good thing.
I was reading old blog posts from Greg Mankiw when I stumbled on this one:
Todd D. Kendall, an economist at Clemson University, reports that more pornography leads to less rape:
The arrival of the internet caused a large decline in both the pecuniary and non-pecuniary costs of accessing pornography. Using state-level panel data from 1998-2003, I [...]