Does Competition Eliminate Discrimination? Evidence from the Commercial Sex Market in Singapore

We are very grateful to Claudia Olivetti, Andrew Oswald, Johannes Schmieder and seminar participants at the Asian meeting of the Econometrics Society, Boston University, Georgetown University (Doha), Nanyang Technological University, the National University of Singapore, the Singapore Economic Review Conference, Cornell University, Duke University and NBER Labor Studies for their helpful comments. Leong also thanks Nanyang Technological University for start-up funding and its support for this research while Lang acknowledges funding from the National Science Foundation under grant SES-1260197. The usual caveat applies. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.