Let me inform you of the following research seminar.

Date: December 5 (Thu.)  , 2024
Time:5:20PM -6:50PM
Venue: 11th Floor, Bldg.No.2 Meeting Room B & ZOOM (HyFlex)
Speaker: Masahiro Shoji (University of Tokyo) 
Organizer: Gabriel Fuentes-Cordoba
Language: English

Title: Cost and Demand Effects of Legal Adult Prostitution on Child Sex Trafficking
Abstract:
We estimate the impact of legal adult prostitution on child sex trafficking. Using a nationwide survey of child sex workers and plausibly exogenous variations in the location of legal brothels, we show that legalization increases demand for and supply of trafficked children and children who voluntarily engage in prostitution. Counterfactual simulations demonstrate that closing brothels reduces them by 13.5% and 2.7%, respectively, but it deprives legal adult sex workers of their job opportunities. Alternatively, strict screening of trafficking victims in the brothels alone reduces victims by 7.3% without evicting legal workers, but it increases voluntary child sex workers by 1.6%.

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