Compensated for Life: Sex Work and Disease Risk
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چکیده
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 transactionlevel data and biological STI markers from sex workers in Ecuador, we exploit withinworker variation across local disease environments. We fi nd that locations with low disease prevalence exhibit a very low, insignifi cant 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 selflimiting nature of STI epidemics.
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