What is more important for prostitute price? Physical appearance or risky sex behavior?

Endogenous risk-taking and physical appearance of sex workers

“…Apart from those mentioned, reasons for the quantitative difference between the results in this paper and the one of Rao et al [20] may be that medication to treat HIV is more easily available and affordable in Germany than in India and that the time periods are rather different between the two studies (pertaining to 1993 in Rao et al [20], and to 2011-2012 in this study). Interestingly and in contrast to the results in Gertler et al [10] and Chang and Weng [4], the results in this paper suggest that appearance affects the hourly wage, but not the risk premium on unprotected sex.…”

“…First, as with any other study on sex workers, data on this type of work are generally selected in the sense that census-type data on sex workers are not available. Data will not be available unless sex workers are willing to participate in a field study (as in [1,4,8,10,20,22]) or they come forward with an online posting and deliver information without knowing (as in this study and also in [7,18]). Second, as opposed to ''offline'' sex workers, ''online'' sex workers as used in this study tend to be better educated, financially less dependent, and part of the higher price segment of the market (see Cunningham and Kendall [6]).…”

“…Chang and Weng ([4], p. 482) acknowledge that their ''analysis may suffer from endogeneity bias because condom use and prostitute price may be correlated due to some unobserved common factors.'' 4 While this is only one such platform in Germany, it accounts for an annual revenue of about 4 million Euros for sexual services offered by females only. 5 When rescinding a concluded contract, the contracted price is still due.…”

“…de. 4 We downloaded all contracted services of female suppliers between 16 January 2011 and 9 September 2012 from this database. In this study, we focus on all contracts where the weight and offered services of the worker are known and a contract has been concluded at a known price.…”

Driving Factors and Their Characteristics of Prostitutes in Indonesia: A Phenomenology Approach

“…They found that young African women are vulnerable to HIV infection because sexual relations with men are an important means to achieve social and economic status, and for some women they are necessary for survival. Meanwhile, Chang and Weng (2012) used a unique random survey of prostitutes in Taipei city of Taiwan. This study investigated the association between obesity, condom use and prostitutes' price.…”