Prostitutes and Brides?
这篇论文提出一个令人费解的现象：卖淫是低技能、劳动密集、女性主导且高薪的职业，并解释这是因为性工作者放弃了在婚姻市场上出售生育能力的机会，从而获得补偿性工资溢价。
In a seminal paper, Lena Edlund and Evelyn Korn (2002) introduce a puzzling stylized fact? that prostitution is low-skilled, labor intensive, female, and well paid?and offer a provocative explanation: sex workers draw a compensating differential due to the foregone opportunity to sell their fertility in the marriage market. In so doing, they not only provide the first formal model of occupational choice involving prostitu? tion, they also draw an intriguing link between the labor market and the marriage market that holds for only one occupation. When a woman chooses to become a sex worker, she relinquishes the compensation she would otherwise receive in marriage, since taboos prevent prostitutes from marrying. Thus, even in settings where prostitu? tion is legal, it must draw an earnings premium. Beyond drawing considerable media attention, the richness of the Edlund-Korn model has made