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The debate about the prohibition of drugs has taken a fundamental turn with the publication of ‘Regulation: The …, i.e. end prohibition, to how regulation can be implemented. These papers shift the discourse from a ‘drugs are the … problem’ paradigm to "management of drugs is the problem". Implications of regulation means: accepting that people should have …
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This policy comment analyzes the risks and issues that might arise from the legal regulation of illegal narcotic and … regulation stakeholders and the influence of their interactions on regulation outcomes. Importantly, we look at the integration … of regulation towards the most vulnerable, while at the same time undermining the illegal market. We find that state …
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This paper analyzes the effects of the "Nordic Model" of prostitution legislation adopted in Sweden in 1999, according to which buyers only are prosecuted. We focus on various measures of violence, distinguishing between known and unknown perpetrator, indoor and outdoor crimes, and on health...
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This paper analyzes the effects of the "Nordic Model" of prostitution legislation adopted in Sweden in 1999, according to which buyers only are prosecuted. We focus on various measures of violence, distinguishing between known and unknown perpetrator, indoor and outdoor crimes, and on health...
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legal regimes: prohibition, regulation and laissez-faire. The key feature is the endogenous evolution of the risk as a … policies on the equilibrium quantity of prostitution and on the harm associated with it. A prohibition regime that makes it … reduces the risk and is therefore associated with a sharp increase in quantity. While prohibition is preferable to minimize …
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Structural transformation in rural Viet Nam has led to rising incomes and a diversification of livelihoods away from agriculture. Using panel data on children in 2,181 rural households surveyed over the 2008-14 period, we examine how the welfare of children has been impacted by structural...
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There is no empirical evidence that trade exposure per se increases child labour. As trade theory and household economics lead us to expect, the cross-country evidence seems to indicate that trade reduces or, at worst, has no significant effect on child labour. Consistently with the theory, a...
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Incorporating family decisions in a two-period.model of the world economy, we predict that trade liberalization raises the skill premium and reduces child labour in developing countries where the adult labour force is sufficiently well educated to attract production activities from abroad that...
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below which an increase in income has no impact on child labour and education. We estimate the causal impact of an increase … in income on child labour and education exploiting the random allocation of the Child Grant Programme, an unconditional …, while relatively less poor households reduce child labour and increase education. In policy terms, the results indicate that …
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