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Natalie Gochnour, the state’s top economist, associate dean for the University of Utah’s David Eccles School of Business and director of the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute, said Utah is positioned to see a significant, upward economic bounce in 2021 and it’s one likely to be driven by multiple factors.

The observed recent decrease in sexual activity includes that deemed good for strengthening intimate bonds in relationships and types of sex considered bad by most. Experts don’t worry about sexually inactive teens and universally agree that teen pregnancy can derail young lives and lead to challenges like higher rates of poverty and less educational attainment.

For University of Utah sociology Prof. Kim Korinek, another key figure in the study, the project will be a way to measure the effects of war on those who may not have had direct contact with the conflict -- an area, she said, that's gone largely unstudied.

Dan Carlson, who studies the gendered division of labor, has advice specifically for men in heterosexual partnerships. “You need to take stock of what is needed in your home — what your children need, what your partner needs — and you need to step in,” Carlson says. “That’s not you being a helper. This is you taking ownership of domestic needs and not waiting to be told to do things.”

“Terroir is about land. It’s the taste of place, literally,” says Marie Sarita Gaytán, author of ¡Tequila! Distilling the Spirit of Mexico and associate professor of sociology and gender studies at the University of Utah. “But it’s also about people. It’s about what people do. It’s about how people live. It’s about what people bring. The knowledge. The generational know-how. It’s about families.”