Giusta, Marina Della; Tommaso, Maria Laura Di; Strøm, … - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic … - 2005
This paper presents an economic model of prostitution, which differs from the existing literature in that it makes no … restrictive assumptions regarding the gender, pay, and nature of forgone earning opportunities of prostitutes and clients, and … applies the same behavioural hypotheses to both. Our model gives a central role to stigma and reputation effects for both …