SIHS SEMINAR Series

次回セミナー/Next Seminar

2024年12月5日(木)　December 5, 2024 (Fri.) 17:20-18:50

報告者/Presenter: Masahiro Shoji (University of Tokyo)

Title: Cost and Demand Effects of Legal Adult Prostitution on Child Sex Trafficking (with Naoshi Doi, Kenmei Tsubota, and Md. Sanual Haque Mondal)

場所：2号館11階経済学部会議室B 

Venue: 11th Floor, Bldg. No.2 Meeting Room B

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幹事/Organizer: Gabriel Fuentes-Cordoba

言語/Language: 英語/English

要旨/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%.