Risk-Coping through Sexual Networks: Evidence from Client Transfers in Kenya
利用肯尼亚西部192名性工作者的日记面板数据，发现她们与常客建立关系，常客在女性遭遇负面收入冲击时提供转账，成为主要的人际保险来源，这也是女性参与性交易的重要原因。
Why do women engage in transactional sex? While much of the explanation is that sex-for-money pays more than other jobs, we use a unique panel data set constructed from 192 self-reported diaries of sex workers in Western Kenya to show that women who supply transactional sex develop relationships with regular clients, and that these clients send transfers in response to negative income shocks. Regular clients are the primary source of interperson insurance that women receive, and women report in a separate survey that client transfers are an important reason that they participate in the market.