Dokument
Titel: | Does Prostitution Constrain Sex Crimes? Micro-Evidence from Korea |
Autor: | Cho, Seo-Young |
Veröffentlicht: | 2015 |
URI: | https://archiv.ub.uni-marburg.de/es/2024/0381 |
URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-es2024-03811 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.17192/es2024.0381 |
ISSN: | 1867-3678 |
DDC: | 330 Wirtschaft |
Publikationsdatum: | 2024-01-12 |
Lizenz: | https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0 |
Schlagwörter: |
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risky sexual behaviors, complementary effects, prostitution, sex crime, substitution effects |
Summary:
This paper investigates empirically whether prostitution reduces sex crimes.
Theoretical predictions suggest two contradicting effects: substituting or complementing. By using survey data of sex offenders in Korea, I find that prostitution increases the probability of committing sex crimes. Also, the experience of buying sex with a minor exacerbates the severity of sex crimes. These results indicate that prostitution intensifies one’s propensities for more violent sexual behaviors, suggesting a complementary relationship between prostitution and sex crimes. The main findings do not alter after accounting for the endogeneity of the model by applying an exogenous instrument – the location of red-light districts.
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