The Centre for Policy Research (CPR) and Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH) invite you to a workshop on:
Safe Travels: Transport Development and Women’s Safety in India
Speaker:
Anisha Garg, Doctoral Candidate, University of Warwick
Tuesday, 29th April 2025, 3:45 PM IST onwards.
The event will be held online via Zoom. Please register below to attend.
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 researchers in applied economics.
