Banning the purchase of sex 🚨DOES NOT🚨increase cases of reported rape. A re-analysis of Ciacci (2024) shows that the paper's headline result comes from an erroneous use of Stata's regression command. A thread from @Jopieboy, @OlleFolke, and me 1/11
Banning the purchase of sex 🚨DOES NOT🚨increase cases of reported rape. A re-analysis of Ciacci (2024) shows that the paper's headline result comes from an erroneous use of Stata's regression command. A thread from @Jopieboy, @OlleFolke, and me 1/11
The paper argues that the number of reported rapes increased by 44—62% when the law was introduced in January 1999. Curiously, no such jump is visible when we plot the yearly number of reported rapes. 2/11