Do laws affect attitudes? An assessment of the Norwegian prostitution law using longitudinal data

International Review of Law and Economics

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 103-115

  Kotsadam, Andreas ^a,b,c   Jakobsson, Niklas ^a,b,c  

^a NORWEGIAN SOCIAL RESEARCH NOVA   (Norway)

^b Reassessing the Nordic Welfare Model   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Law; Norms; Prostitution

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958018421     PISSN: 01448188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.irle.2011.03.001     Document Type: Article

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