This paper studies the effects of introducing legal street prostitution zones on both registered and perceived crime …. We exploit a unique setting in the Netherlands where legal street prostitution zones were opened in nine cities under … street prostitution zone decreases registered sexual abuse and rape by about 30% to 40% in the first two years. For cities …

remain strongly censorious, and the moral attitude of the Dutch towards prostitution is not so different from that of other … European countries. Hekma (2000) and Oosterhuis (1998) likewise argue that to work in prostitution is to face stigmatization … nuisance or exploitation has occurred. In the case of street prostitution, soliciting and purchasing sex has also been …

This paper quantifies residents' aversion to sex workers by studying the case of overt prostitution in Amsterdam, where … evidence that allowing prostitution increases local employment. This evidence comes from Utrecht, the fourth largest city in …

This paper studies the effects of introducing legal street prostitution zones on both registered and perceived crime …. We exploit a unique setting in the Netherlands where legal street prostitution zones were opened in nine cities under … street prostitution zone decreases registered sexual abuse and rape by about 30% to 40% in the first two years. For cities …