The Wages of Sin

L. Edlund, Joseph Engelberg, Christopher Parsons
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Edlund and Korn [2002] (EK) proposed that prostitutes are well paid and that the wage premium reflects foregone marriage market opportunities. However, studies of street prostitution in the U.S. have revealed only modest wages and considerable risks of disease and violence, casting doubt on EK’s premise of an unexplained wage premium. In this paper, we present evidence from high-end prostitution, the so called escort market, a market that is, if not entirely safe, notably safer than street prostitution. Analyzing wage information on more than 40,000 escorts in the U.S. and Canada collected from a web site, we find strong support for EK. First, escorts in the sample earn high wages, on average $280/hour. Second, while looks decline monotonically with age, wages follow a hump-shaped pattern, with a peak in the 26-30 age bracket, which coincides with the most intensive marriage ages for women in the U.S. Third, the age-wage profile is significantly flatter, and prices are lower (5%), despite slightly better escort characteristics, in cities that rank high in terms of conferences, suggesting that servicing men in transit is associated with less stigma. Fourth, this hump in the age-wage profile is absent among escorts for whom the marriage market penalty is lower or absent: escorts who do not provide sex and transsexuals.
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Edlund和Korn [2002] (EK)提出妓女的收入很高,工资溢价反映了放弃的婚姻市场机会。然而,对美国街头卖淫的研究显示,她们的工资并不高,而且有相当大的疾病和暴力风险,这让人们对EK的工资溢价解释产生了怀疑。在本文中,我们提供了来自高端卖淫的证据,即所谓的陪护市场,这个市场即使不是完全安全,也明显比街头卖淫安全。我们分析了从网站上收集的美国和加拿大4万多名妓女的工资信息,发现了对EK的有力支持。首先,样本中的应召女郎工资很高,平均每小时280美元。其次,虽然长相随着年龄的增长而单调下降,但工资却呈驼峰状,在26-30岁年龄段达到峰值,这与美国女性最密集的结婚年龄相吻合。第三,在会议排名靠前的城市,年龄-工资状况明显更平坦,价格也更低(5%),尽管护送特征略好一些,这表明在交通中为男性提供服务的人较少受到歧视。第四,在那些婚姻市场惩罚较低或不存在的应召女郎中,不提供性服务和变性服务的应召女郎,在年龄工资方面没有出现这种高峰。
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