Decriminalizing Indoor Prostitution: Implications …

Decriminalizing Indoor prostitution : Implications for Sexual Violence and Public Health Scott CunninghamBaylor UniversityManisha ShahUniversity of California, Los Angeles & NBERS eptember 2017 AbstractMost governments in the world, including the United States, prohibit sex these types of laws rarely change and are fairly uniform across regions, ourknowledge about the impact of Decriminalizing sex work is largely conjectural. Weexploit the fact that a Rhode Island District Court judge unexpectedly decriminal-ized Indoor sex work to provide causal estimates of the impact of decriminalizationon the composition of the sex market, reported rape offenses, and sexually transmit-ted infections. While decriminalization increases the size of the Indoor sex market,reported rape offenses fall by 30 percent and female gonorrhea incidence declines byover 40 Codes: I18, J4, K42 We would like to thank Alberto Abadie, Lynn Arditi, Marianne Bitler, Sandra Black, Kitt Carpenter,Jens Hainmueller, Mark Hoekstra, Mireille Jacobsen, Rob Jensen, Michael Kiselica, Trevon Logan, PacoMartorell, Roland Merchant, Charles North, Gerald Oettinger, Emily Owens, Sarah Reber, Bryce Stein-berg, Van Pham, and Rob Valletta for helpful comments.

Decriminalizing Indoor Prostitution: Implications for Sexual Violence and Public Health Scott Cunningham Baylor University Manisha Shah University of California, Los Angeles & NBER

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