Die Verschleppung junger Frauen in Bordelle galt um 1900 als ein großes soziales Problem. Der weltweite Kampf gegen die „white slavery“ (dt. "internationaler Mädchenhandel") beruhte jedoch auf einer Fiktion. Deutsche Kriminologen und angloamerikanische Sozialwissenschaftler haben...

The custom of bride price involves the payment of goods or cash from the groom's family to the bride's family at the time of marriage. We present a theory that views bride price as a payment in hedonic markets for marital fidelity. Data from a household survey in Uganda are used to test the...

We estimate the earnings premium for beauty in an occupation where returns to physical attractiveness are likely to be important: commercial sex work. In the commercial sex market, perhaps more so than any other sector in the labor market, the beauty premium should be at the extreme due to the...

We study the long-term determinants of the high rates of HIV infection in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly among women, with a focus on family structure and sexual behavior as shaped by the demographic shock following the transatlantic slave trade. First we show that, in clusters where polygyny...