Safety First: Perceived Risk of Street Harassment and Educational Choices of Women
By G. Borker. Policy Research Working Papers, 2021
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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.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science
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- Social Norms as a Barrier to Women’s Employment in Developing Countries (2020, background): “Boserup (1970) hypothesized that in societies in which men had a particularly strong absolute advantage in agriculture, a norm that work was the purview of men took hold.”