01365nam a22001697a 4500999001900000008004100019100004400060245005000104260004800154300003100202520072400233650005600957773004801013906002101061942000701082952010601089  c520707d520707221007b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a Lee, Samuel and Persson, Petra 934805  aHuman trafficking and regulating prostitution  aAmerican Economic Journal: Economic Policy   a14(3), Aug, 2022: p.87-127  aCertain markets are illicit because part of the supply is coerced, but little is known about the optimal regulation of such markets. We model a prostitution market with voluntary and coerced prostitutes and ask what regulation can restore the benchmark outcome that would arise under laissez-faire absent coercion. Whereas current policies—decriminalization, criminalization of the buy or sell sides, and licensing—are ineffective against trafficking or harm voluntary suppliers, we show that an alternative policy can restore the benchmark outcome. Our results are relevant to the ongoing debate about decriminalizing prostitution and provide guidance for empirical work on prostitution regulation. – Reproduced   aHuman trafficking, Prostitution, Trafficking934806  aAmerican Economic Journal: Economic Policy   aHUMAN TRAFFIKING  cAR  00102ddc40709394764aIIPAbIIPAd2022-10-07h14(3), Aug, 2022: p.87-127pAR127289r2022-10-07yAR