Demand for 'Safe Spaces' : Avoiding Harassment and Stigma
What are the costs to women of harassment on public transit? This study randomizes the price of a women-reserved “safe space” in Rio de Janeiro and crowd-source information on 22,000 rides. Women in the public space experience harassment once a week. A fifth of riders are willing to forgo 20 pe...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2020
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/890601591188701117/Demand-for-Safe-Spaces-Avoiding-Harassment-and-Stigma http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33853 |
| Summary: | What are the costs to women of harassment on public transit?
This study randomizes the price of a women-reserved
“safe space” in Rio de Janeiro and crowd-source information
on 22,000 rides. Women in the public space experience
harassment once a week. A fifth of riders are willing to forgo
20 percent of the fare to ride in the “safe space”. Randomly
assigning riders to the “safe space” reduces physical harassment
by 50 percent, implying a cost of $1.45 per incident.
Implicit Association Tests show that women face a stigma
for riding in the public space that may outweigh the benefits
of the safe space. |
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