This study describes the findings of a survey of adolescents’ aged 12-19 in Ado-Ekiti. The survey examines the influence of the mass media – radio, television and the print on adolescent sexual behaviour. The underlying propositions are that modern and western ideas communicated via the mass...

The custom of bride price involves the payment of goods or cash from the groom's family to the bride's family at the time of marriage. We present a theory that views bride price as a payment in hedonic markets for marital fidelity. Data from a household survey in Uganda are used to test the...