Replication data for: Street Prostitution Zones and Crime

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Project Citation:

Bisschop, Paul, Kastoryano, Stephen, and van der Klaauw, Bas. Replication data for: Street Prostitution Zones and Crime. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2017. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-13. https://doi.org/10.3886/E114656V1

Project Description

Summary: This paper studies the effects of legal street prostitution zones on registered and perceived crime. We exploit a unique setting in the Netherlands where these tippelzones were opened in nine cities under different regulation systems. Our difference-in-difference analysis of 25 Dutch cities between 1994-2011 shows that opening a tippelzone decreases registered sexual abuse and rape by about 30-40 percent in the first two years. For cities which enforced licensing in tippelzones, we also find reductions in drug-related crime and long-term effects on sexual assaults. Effects on perceived drug nuisance depend on the regulation system and the proximity of respondents to the tippelzone.

Scope of Project

JEL Classification:
      J16 Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
      J47 Coercive Labor Markets
      K42 Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law

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