An Analysis of "Virginity Pledges" That Encourage Adolescents to Promise

question 18

Multiple Choice

An analysis of "virginity pledges" that encourage adolescents to promise to abstain from premarital sex has found that

• A) pledging works equally well for adolescents of all ages.
• B) pledging has a significant positive effect, even in schools in which few students take the pledge.
• C) pledging works well in schools in which nearly everyone takes the pledge.
• D) a large majority of adolescents who take a virginity pledge will deny having done so five years later.

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Definitions:

Marginal Cost

The cost implicated in generating an added unit of a product or service.

Efficient Allocation

The distribution of resources in a way that maximizes the net benefit received by an economy.

Allocative Efficiency

A state of the economy where resources are apportioned in a way that maximizes the overall benefit to society.

Productive Efficiency

A state where an economy or entity cannot produce more of one good without producing less of another, utilizing all resources in the best possible way without waste.