Human trafficking is a serious humanitarian problem. Using a nationally representative survey of Bangladeshi child sex workers and an instrumental variable model, we examine the working conditions of trafficked child sex workers and how they differ from those of nontrafficked child sex workers....

Political protests in the form of strikes, locally known as hartals, remain quite common in the Indian subcontinent countries. Such a form of protests is associated with a mass movement, intended to cause a total shutdown of economic activities and often results in coercion, violence, and damage...