Compensated for Life: Sex Work and Disease Risk

Autor/inn/en	Arunachalam, Raj; Shah, Manisha
Titel	Compensated for Life: Sex Work and Disease Risk
Quelle	In: Journal of Human Resources, 48 (2013) 2, S.345-369 (25 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-166X
Schlagwörter	Sexuality; Health Behavior; At Risk Persons; Sexually Transmitted Diseases; Prevention; Foreign Countries; Environmental Influences; Geographic Location; Communicable Diseases; Questionnaires; Economic Factors; Individual Characteristics; Regression (Statistics); Ecuador + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sexualität; Health behaviour; Gesundheitsverhalten; Risikogruppe; Sexual transmitted disease; Geschlechtskrankheit; Prävention; Vorbeugung; Ausland; Environmental influence; Umwelteinfluss; Contagious disease; Contagious diseases; Communicable disease; Infektionskrankheit; Fragebogen; Ökonomischer Faktor; Personality characteristic; Personality traits; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Regression; Regressionsanalyse
Abstract	Sex workers draw a premium for engaging in unprotected sex. We theoretically motivate a test of whether this premium represents a compensating differential for disease, thereby mitigating sex workers' propensity to use condoms. Using transaction-level data and biological STI markers from sex workers in Ecuador, we exploit within-worker variation across local disease environments. We find that locations with low disease prevalence exhibit a very low, insignificant premium for unprotected sex. A one percentage point increase in the local disease rate increases the premium for noncondom sex by 33 percent. Market forces may curb the self-limiting nature of STI epidemics. (Contains 9 footnotes, 2 figures, and 6 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10