This repository contains the supplemental material and replication package for the Working Paper "Demand for 'Safe Spaces': Avoiding Harassment and Stigma" by Florence Kondylis, Arianna Legovini, Kate Vyborny, Astrid Zwager, and Luiza Andrade.
What are the costs to women of harassment on public transit? We randomize 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 fourth of riders are willing to forgo 20% of the fare to ride in the "safe space". Randomly assigning riders to the "safe space" reduces physical harassment by 50%, implying a cost of $1.45 per incident. Implicit Association Tests show that women face a stigma for riding in the public space which may outweigh benefits of the safe space.
- Most recent version of full paper
- Online appendix: Robustness Checks & Supplemental Material
- Reproducibility Package
