Demand for 'Safe Spaces' : Avoiding Harassment and Stigma

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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Main Authors: Kondylis, Florence, Legovini, Arianna, Vyborny, Kate, Zwager, Astrid, Andrade, Luiza
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2020
Subjects:
SEXUAL HARASSMENT
GENDER
PUBLIC TRANSIT
MOBILITY
REVEALED PREFERENCES
IMPLICIT ASSOCIATION TEST
STIGMA
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/890601591188701117/Demand-for-Safe-Spaces-Avoiding-Harassment-and-Stigma
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spelling okr-10986-338532022-09-20T00:11:18Z Demand for 'Safe Spaces' : Avoiding Harassment and Stigma Kondylis, Florence Legovini, Arianna Vyborny, Kate Zwager, Astrid Andrade, Luiza SEXUAL HARASSMENT GENDER PUBLIC TRANSIT MOBILITY REVEALED PREFERENCES IMPLICIT ASSOCIATION TEST 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 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. 2020-06-04T14:53:28Z 2020-06-04T14:53:28Z 2020-06 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/890601591188701117/Demand-for-Safe-Spaces-Avoiding-Harassment-and-Stigma http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33853 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 9269 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 Latin America & Caribbean Brazil
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topic SEXUAL HARASSMENT
GENDER
PUBLIC TRANSIT
MOBILITY
REVEALED PREFERENCES
IMPLICIT ASSOCIATION TEST
STIGMA
spellingShingle SEXUAL HARASSMENT
GENDER
PUBLIC TRANSIT
MOBILITY
REVEALED PREFERENCES
IMPLICIT ASSOCIATION TEST
STIGMA
Kondylis, Florence
Legovini, Arianna
Vyborny, Kate
Zwager, Astrid
Andrade, Luiza
Demand for 'Safe Spaces' : Avoiding Harassment and Stigma
geographic_facet Latin America & Caribbean
Brazil
relation Policy Research Working Paper;No. 9269
description 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.
format Working Paper
author Kondylis, Florence
Legovini, Arianna
Vyborny, Kate
Zwager, Astrid
Andrade, Luiza
author_facet Kondylis, Florence
Legovini, Arianna
Vyborny, Kate
Zwager, Astrid
Andrade, Luiza
author_sort Kondylis, Florence
title Demand for 'Safe Spaces' : Avoiding Harassment and Stigma
title_short Demand for 'Safe Spaces' : Avoiding Harassment and Stigma
title_full Demand for 'Safe Spaces' : Avoiding Harassment and Stigma
title_fullStr Demand for 'Safe Spaces' : Avoiding Harassment and Stigma
title_full_unstemmed Demand for 'Safe Spaces' : Avoiding Harassment and Stigma
title_sort demand for 'safe spaces' : avoiding harassment and stigma
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2020
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/890601591188701117/Demand-for-Safe-Spaces-Avoiding-Harassment-and-Stigma
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33853
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