Commercial sex is a prevalent but risky profession in many countries, including Myanmar. Although risk attitude is a potentially important factor in determining risky behaviour of female sex workers (FSWs), few studies have explicitly investigated the issue. This is one of the first studies to elicit the risk attitude of FSWs using a simple risk game. We conducted the risk game with FSWs in Yangon, Myanmar, where the average GDP per capita is very low, to study how risk attitude is related with observable characteristics and with risky behaviour related to the use of condoms in the commercial sex market. We found that risk attitude is relatively independent of observable characteristics and the decision to use a condom. However, transaction prices were directly associated with risk attitude.

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性市场中的风险态度、风险行为和价格决定：缅甸仰光的案例研究

在包括缅甸在内的许多国家，商业性行为是一种普遍但危险的职业。尽管风险态度是决定女性性工作者（FSW）风险行为的潜在重要因素，但很少有研究明确调查这个问题。这是首次使用简单的风险游戏来得出 FSW 风险态度的研究之一。我们在人均GDP很低的缅甸仰光与FSW进行了风险博弈，以研究风险态度与可观察特征以及与在商业性市场中使用安全套相关的风险行为之间的关系。我们发现风险态度相对独立于可观察的特征和使用安全套的决定。然而，交易价格与风险态度直接相关。