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Author: Cunningham, Scott

Title: Men-in-Transit and Prostitution: Using Political Conventions as a Natural Experiment

Summary: Approximately 100,000 visitors came to Denver, Colorado and Minneapolis, Minnesota to attend the 2008 Democratic and Republican National Conventions. Economic theory suggests that men in transit can cause a shift in demand for commercial sex work. We estimate the responsiveness of labor supply to these two conventions, focusing on a previously neglected but increasingly important segment of the prostitution market: indoor sex workers who advertise on the Internet. Using a differences‐in‐differences estimator, we find that the conventions caused a roughly 30% increase in advertisements on the larger of two advertisement sites in the affected markets. Given the key role prostitution plays in the transmission of STIs, these results imply a focus of public health resources on men in transit.

Details: Unpublished paper, 2011. 34p.

Source: Internet Resource: Accessed May 22, 2012 at: http://www.toddkendall.net/Men_In_Transit_012511.pdf

Year: 2011

Country: United States

URL: http://www.toddkendall.net/Men_In_Transit_012511.pdf

Shelf Number: 125264

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