Prostitutes <i>and</i> Brides?

Arunachalam, Raj; Shah, Manisha

doi:10.1257/aer.98.2.516

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“…These theoretical attempts, however, often suffer from a lack of empirical acquaintance with the world of sex workers and from assumptions that may be consistent but not realistic. A striking example is Edlund and Korn’s (2002) assertion that the cost of being a prostitute consists of chances lost on the marriage market (convincingly falsified in Arunachalam and Shah 2008 and shown to be improbable in Peracca et al 1998).…”

Section: Explaining Unsafe Sex: the Health Risk Differentialmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sex, price and preferences: accounting for unsafe sexual practices in prostitution markets

Adriaenssens

Hendrickx

2011

Sociology Health & Illness

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Unsafe sexual practices are persistent in prostitution interactions: one in four contacts can be called unsafe. The determinants of this are still matter for debate. We account for the roles played by clients' preferences and the hypothetical price premium of unsafe sexual practices with the help of a large dataset of clients' self-reported commercial sexual transactions in Belgium and The Netherlands. Almost 25,000 reports were collected, representing the whole gamut of prostitution market segments. The first set of explanations consists of an analysis of the price-fixing elements of paid sex. With the help of the so-called hedonic pricing method we test for the existence of a price incentive for unsafe sex. In accordance with the results from studies in some prostitution markets in the developing world, the study replicates a significant wage penalty for condom use of an estimated 7.2 per cent, confirmed in both multilevel and fixed-effects regressions. The second part of the analysis reconstructs the demand side basis of this wage penalty: the consistent preference of clients of prostitution for unsafe sex. This study is the first to document empirically clients' preference for intercourse without a condom, with the help of a multilevel ordinal regression.

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Section: Explaining Unsafe Sex: the Health Risk Differentialmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sex, price and preferences: accounting for unsafe sexual practices in prostitution markets

Adriaenssens

Hendrickx

2011

Sociology Health & Illness

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“…6 See evidence on the risk behaviors of Internet-mediated prostitutes in Cunningham and Kendall (2010c), and a similar theoretical argument with respect to illegal drugs in Miron and Zweibel (1995). Arunachalam and Shah, 2008;Gertler et al, 2005;Cameron and Collins, 2003;Rao et al, 2003), have contributed to an already substantial public health and sociological literature. 7 However, most research in economics and elsewhere has focused either on street prostitution markets, or on prostitution in developing markets, with relatively little focus on indoor prostitution, and in particular, the Internet-facilitated indoor market.…”

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Prostitution 2.0: The changing face of sex work

Cunningham

Kendall

2011

Journal of Urban Economics

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“…For example, still very little is known about how regulating this market might affect public health outcomes. Unlike most other professions, sex workers earn more at younger ages and their income decreases with age and experience (Arunachalam and Shah, 2008). In some countries sex work is illegal, in other countries it is decriminalized, and in other places it is legal.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

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“…Issues related to trafficking have not been discussed too much in the economics literature. Arunachalam and Shah (2008) test the Edlund-Korn model. Without the intention of understating the importance of trafficking and dangers faced by many girls and women who enter the sex market via this channel, this article will not cover this area.…”

Section: Why Might Women Enter the Sex Market?mentioning

confidence: 99%