Safety First : Perceived Risk of Street Harassment and Educational Choices of Women

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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Main Author: Borker, Girija
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2021
Subjects:
GENDER
TRANSPORT
URBAN
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
SEXUAL HARASSMENT
SAFETY
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/723631626710146405/Safety-First-Perceived-Risk-of-Street-Harassment-and-Educational-Choices-of-Women
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spelling okr-10986-360042021-07-23T05:11:16Z Safety First : Perceived Risk of Street Harassment and Educational Choices of Women Borker, Girija GENDER TRANSPORT URBAN VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN SEXUAL HARASSMENT SAFETY 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. 2021-07-22T13:33:49Z 2021-07-22T13:33:49Z 2021-07 Working Paper 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 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 9731 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper South Asia India
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topic GENDER
TRANSPORT
URBAN
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
SEXUAL HARASSMENT
SAFETY
spellingShingle GENDER
TRANSPORT
URBAN
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
SEXUAL HARASSMENT
SAFETY
Borker, Girija
Safety First : Perceived Risk of Street Harassment and Educational Choices of Women
geographic_facet South Asia
India
relation Policy Research Working Paper;No. 9731
description 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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author Borker, Girija
author_facet Borker, Girija
author_sort Borker, Girija
title Safety First : Perceived Risk of Street Harassment and Educational Choices of Women
title_short Safety First : Perceived Risk of Street Harassment and Educational Choices of Women
title_full Safety First : Perceived Risk of Street Harassment and Educational Choices of Women
title_fullStr Safety First : Perceived Risk of Street Harassment and Educational Choices of Women
title_full_unstemmed Safety First : Perceived Risk of Street Harassment and Educational Choices of Women
title_sort safety first : perceived risk of street harassment and educational choices of women
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2021
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/723631626710146405/Safety-First-Perceived-Risk-of-Street-Harassment-and-Educational-Choices-of-Women
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