[CSH-CPR Urban Workshop #182] Safe Travels: Transport Development and Women’s Safety in India (A. Garg)

Date
April 29, 2025
Time
3:45 PM - 5:00 PM
Location
Zoom
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The Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH) & Centre for Policy Research (CPR) are pleased to invite you to an Urban Workshop N°182 on

Safe Travels: Transport Development and Women’s Safety in India

Speaker: Anisha Garg (University of Warwick)

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About the talk:

Beyond fostering inclusion and connectivity, does investing in mass transit impact crimes against women? This talk focuses on the impact of the expansion of the metro rail system in Delhi, India, on reported crimes against women. Preparing a novel data set of the universe of crime reports at the police station-day level, and leveraging the staggered opening of metro stations across these police jurisdictions between 2016 and 2019, shows a decrease in reported incidents of sexual harassment against women in public spaces following the opening of the first metro station in the police jurisdiction. The reported reduction in sexual harassment is neither linked to an overall decrease in reported non-gender-specific crimes in public spaces, nor substituted by an increase in such crimes in metro stations or trains. An analysis of crime reports from alternative public transport networks, combined with area safety data from a crowd-sourced mobile application, suggests that this reduction is driven by the enhanced safety provided by the metro network.
 

About the Speaker:

Anisha is a fourth-year PhD candidate in Economics at the University of Warwick. Her research focuses on Development Economics and Political Economy. She is also a co-organizer of the Applied Young Economist Webinar (AYEW), a virtual seminar series co-hosted with Monash University that features early-career

This is the one hundred and eighty-second (182) in a series of Urban Workshops planned by the Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH), New Delhi, and Centre for Policy Research (CPR). These workshops seek to provoke public discussion on the city’s development issues and address all its facets including its administration, culture, economy, society, and politics. For further information, please contact: Rama Devi at ramadevi2487@gmail.com, Champaka Rajagopal at champaka@cprindia.org or Partha Mukhopadhyay at partha@cprindia.org.

  • Organizer Name: Centre de Sciences Humaines and Centre for Policy Research (CPR)
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