We study popular attitudes in Germany, Spain, the Philippines, and the United States toward three controversial markets—prostitution, surrogacy, and global kidney exchange (GKE). Of those markets, only prostitution is banned in the United States and the Philippines, and only prostitution is allowed in Germany and Spain. Unlike prostitution, majorities support legalization of surrogacy and GKE in all four countries. So, there is not a simple relation between public support for markets, or bans, and their legal and regulatory status. Because both markets and bans on markets require social support to work well, this sheds light on the prospects for effective regulation of controversial markets.
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Roth, A. E., & Wang, S. W. (2020). Popular repugnance contrasts with legal bans on controversial markets. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117(33), 19792–19798. https://doi.org/10.1073/PNAS.2005828117
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