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

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...
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Borker,Girija.

Safety First : Perceived Risk of Street Harassment and Educational Choices of Women (English). Policy Research working paper|no. WPS 9731 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/723631626710146405

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