Word: brueckner
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...recent decline in teen pregnancy rates, there's nothing to say that chastity - rather than broader use of condoms - is responsible. They are also quick to trot out one part of a study of virginity pledges published last year by Peter Bearman of Columbia University and Hannah Brueckner, now of Yale University, that found students who took pledges delayed their first sexual encounter by an average of 18 months. Pro-abstinence folks conveniently neglect the portion of the study that followed the same students through their early sexual activities and found they were less likely to use birth control...