We investigate the causal effect of the asymmetric criminalization of prostitution on sex tourism. We exploit legal … reforms in five countries that switched from systems where prostitution was legal (Norway, Sweden, Ireland, Canada), or where … neighboring countries and popular sex tourism destinations. We find significant effects for countries where prostitution was legal …

This paper investigates the impact of legalized prostitution on human trafficking inflows. According to economic theory …, there are two opposing effects of unknown magnitude. The scale effect of legalizing prostitution leads to an expansion of … the prostitution market, increasing human trafficking, while the substitution effect reduces demand for trafficked women …

Liberal prostitution policy aims at improving labour conditions for prostitutes and protecting victims of forced … prostitution. Its policy orientation predicts that the policy choice of liberalizing prostitution is positively associated with … empirically whether the legalization of prostitution improves protection policy for victims, as it is presumed. The results of my …

We study human trafficking in a marriage market model of prostitution. When trafficking is based on coercion …, trafficking victims constitute a non-zero share of supply in any unregulated prostitution market. We ask if regulation can … approaches - criminalization of prostitutes (the traditional model), licensed prostitution (the Dutch model), and criminalization …

While there is no consensus concerning the legal and moral judgment towards prostitution, there is an overwhelming … sex (the so called neo-abolitionism or nordic prostitution regime) as it concerns sexual slavery. As a result the …

This paper studies the effects of introducing legal street prostitution zones on both registered and perceived crime …. We exploit a unique setting in the Netherlands where legal street prostitution zones were opened in nine cities under … street prostitution zone decreases registered sexual abuse and rape by about 30% to 40% in the first two years. For cities …