The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Prostitution

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Scott Cunningham (Assistant Professor of Economics, Assistant Professor of Economics, Baylor University) Manisha Shah (Assistant Professor of Economics, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of California Irvine)

The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Prostitution

Scott Cunningham (Assistant Professor of Economics, Assistant Professor of Economics, Baylor University), Manisha Shah (Assistant Professor of Economics, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of California Irvine)

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Oxford University Press Inc
11 August 2016

Ethical issues: prostitution & sex industry; Sociology: work & labour; Economics

Series: Oxford Handbooks

Prostitution bears the unique title of being both the ""world's oldest profession"" and one of the least understood occupations.

Unlike most of the crime and family literature, prostitution appears to have all the features of traditional markets: prices, supply and demand considerations, variety in the organizational structure, and policy relevance. Despite this, economists have largely ignored prostitution in their research and writings. This has been changing, however, over the last twenty years as greater access to data has enabled economists to build better theories and gain a better understanding of the organization of sex market.

The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Prostitution fills the gap in our understanding. It brings together many of the top researchers in the field who explain how the prostitution markets are organized across space and time, the role of technology in shaping labor supply and demand, the intersection of prostitution with trafficking, and the optimal use of law enforcement. What makes the material unique is its explicit focus on economics as the primary methodology for organizing our understanding of prostitution. The Handbook brings to scholars' attention for the first time a collection of original writings on prostitution that provides an overview of what is known and what is not known in this area. Researchers with an interest in underground markets, labor economics, risky behaviors, marriage, and gender will find the book's contents illuminating and path breaking.

Edited by: Scott Cunningham (Assistant Professor of Economics Assistant Professor of Economics Baylor University), Manisha Shah (Assistant Professor of Economics, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of California Irvine)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 175mm, Width: 249mm, Spine: 33mm
Weight: 1.111kg
ISBN: 9780199915248
ISBN 10: 0199915245
Series: Oxford Handbooks
Pages: 540
Publication Date: 11 August 2016
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Scott Cunningham is an Associate Professor of Economics at Baylor University. His main research focuses on the organization of illicit and illegal markets, drug policy, prostitution, and risky sexual behavior. He has published in the Journal of Urban Economics and Economic Inquiry. Manisha Shah is an Associate Professor of Public Policy at UCLA. She is a development economist whose primary research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of applied microeconomics, health, and development. Her research has appeared in journals like the Journal of Political Economy, American Economic Review, American Economic Journal, and the Journal of Human Resources.

Reviews for The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Prostitution

This book, edited by Scott Cunningham and Manisha Shah, is part of the Oxford Handbook Series... It explores recent economic research about prostitution and sex... The chapters include descriptive, historical, and institutional chapters but mostly aeconomic modela type papers, such as the type that would show up in an applied economics journal. -- D. C. Colander (Middlebury College), Choice Reviews Vol 55.