Safety First : Perceived Risk of Street Harassment and Educational Choices of Women
This paper examines the long-term consequences of unsafe public spaces for women. It combines student-level survey data, a mapping of potential travel routes to all the colleges in the choice set, and crowdsourced mobile application safety data fro...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2021
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/723631626710146405/Safety-First-Perceived-Risk-of-Street-Harassment-and-Educational-Choices-of-Women http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36004 |
| Summary: | This paper examines the long-term
consequences of unsafe public spaces for women. It combines
student-level survey data, a mapping of potential travel
routes to all the colleges in the choice set, and
crowdsourced mobile application safety data from Delhi. The
findings show that women choose a college in the bottom half
of the quality distribution over a college in the top
quintile to feel safer while traveling, relative to men with
comparable choice sets who choose a college in the top
one-third of the distribution over a college in the top
quintile. These findings have implications beyond women’s
human capital attainment, such as their participation in the
labor force. |
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