- Resource Reallocation (Police and Prosecutor)
- Police abuses Could be Minizized
- Abuse of Sex workers Should Decrease

Possible Policy Benefits from the Decriminalization of Sex Work

As expected, based on the measurements, decriminalization of indoor prostitution did cause an increase in the size of the indoor sex market.

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Because legalization makes it easier to enter the sex market (both the workers and the institutions, i.e., brothels) by reducing the associated costs - sex workers are less to face legal harassment or arrests and the institution owners can invest in their business without fear of being shut down - we would then expect the size of the market to increase. Theoretically, this would correspond to an increase in the supply (a rightward shift in the supply curve), which would decrease the price of sex work. Furthermore, we would predict a change in the composition of the market as stigma decreases and more women enter the indoor market and (if indoor and outdoor transactions are close substitutes), then the overall size increase should increase and this should be accompanied by a change in the composition of the market. 

The Theoretical Effects of Decriminalizing Prostitution on the Size of the Indoor Sex Market

Cunningham, Scott and Shah, Manisha. Decriminalizing Indoor Prostitution: Implications for Sexual Violence and Public Health, The Review of Economic Studies, Volume 85, Issue 3, July 2018, Pages 1683–1715, https://doi.org/10.1093/restud/rdx065

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