Trafficking in human beings (THB) is a widespread, transnational issue in the European Union (EU). Member states act as source, transit, and destination countries for intra-EU trafficking, in addition to being a major destination region for external THB victims. This study presents a new dataset of THB victims observed in each EU member state per year and by type of exploitation going back as far as 2001 and employs exact matching methods to test the link between different prostitution policies and Roma secondary education attainment rates on observed THB victimization. The paper also builds off previous literature to compare how different legal prostitution models and THB supply factors are expected to influence various types of THB. The results indicate that legalized prostitution and lower educational attainment among the Roma community increase observed THB victimization, especially THB for the purpose of sexual exploitation. The paper does not find that the Swedish model significantly increases or decreases observed THB victimization. In demonstrating how matching methods can be utilized to uncover policy patterns in THB outcomes, this study provides a blueprint for how other hidden phenomena, such as corruption or migration, can be robustly and empirically tested.

贩卖人口 (THB) 在欧盟 (EU) 是一个普遍存在的跨国问题。成员国除了是外部 THB 受害者的主要目的地区域外，还是欧盟内部贩运的来源国、过境国和目的地国。本研究提供了一个新的 THB 受害者数据集，该数据集自 2001 年起每年在每个欧盟成员国中按剥削类型进行观察，并采用精确匹配方法来测试不同卖淫政策与罗姆人中等教育普及率之间的联系。受害。该论文还以以前的文献为基础，比较了不同的合法卖淫模式和 THB 供应因素将如何影响各种类型的 THB。结果表明，在罗姆人社区中，合法卖淫和较低的教育程度增加了观察到的 THB 受害，特别是出于性剥削目的的 THB。该论文并未发现瑞典模型会显着增加或减少观察到的 THB 受害情况。在演示如何利用匹配方法来揭示 THB 结果中的政策模式时，本研究为如何对其他隐藏现象（例如腐败或移民）进行稳健和实证检验提供了蓝图。