adult_services: Data from a survey of internet-mediated sex workers
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Data from a survey of internet-mediated sex workers

Description

This data comes from a survey of 700 internet-mediated sex workers in 2008 and 2009, asking the same sex workers standard labor market information over several time periods.

Usage

adult_services

Format

A data frame with 1787 rows and 31 variables

id: Provider identifier
session: Client session identifier
age: Age of provider
age_cl: Age of Client
appearance_cl: Client Attractiveness (Scale of 1 to 10)
bmi: Body Mass Index
schooling: Imputed Years of Schooling
asq_cl: Age of Client Squared
provider_second: Second Provider Involved
asian_cl: Asian Client
black_cl: Black Client
hispanic_cl: Hispanic Client
othrace_cl: Other Ethnicity Client
reg: Client was a Regular
hot: Met Client in Hotel
massage_cl: Gave Client a Massage
lnw: Log of Hourly Wage
llength: Ln(Length)
unsafe: Unprotected sex with client of any kind
asian: race==1. Asian
black: race==2. Black
hispanic: race==3. Hispanic
other: race==4. Other
white: race==5. White
asq: Age of provider squared
cohab: ms==Cohabitating (living with a partner) but unmarried
married: ms==Currently married and living with your spouse
divorced: ms==Divorced and not remarried
separated: ms==Married but not currently living with your spouse
nevermarried: ms==Single and never married
widowed: ms==Widowed and not remarried

Details

This data is used in the Panel Data chapter of Causal Inference: The Mixtape by Cunningham.

Source

Cunningham, Scott, and Todd D. Kendall. 2011. “Prostitution 2.0: The Changing Face of Sex Work.” Journal of Urban Economics 69: 273–87.

Cunningham, Scott, and Todd D. Kendall. 2014. “Examining the Role of Client Reviews and Reputation Within Online Prostitution.” In, edited by Scott Cunningham and Manisha Shah. Vol. Handbook on the Economics of Prostitution. Oxford University Press.

Cunningham, Scott, and Todd D. Kendall. 2016. “Prostitution Labor Supply and Education.” Review of Economics of the Household. Forthcoming.