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Benefits and Unintended Consequences of Gender Segregation in Public Transportation: Evidence from Mexico City’s Subway System

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  • Arturo Aguilar
  • Emilio Gutiérrez
  • Paula Soto Villagrán

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Public transportation is a basic everyday activity. Costs imposed by violence might have far-reaching consequences. We conduct a survey and exploit the discontinuity in the hours of operation of a program that reserves subway cars exclusively for women in Mexico City. The program seems to be successful at reducing sexual harassment toward women by 2.9 percentage points. However, it produces unintended consequences by increasing nonsexual aggression incidents (e.g., insults, shoving) among men by 15.3 percentage points. Both sexual and nonsexual violence seem to be costly; however, our results do not imply that costs of the program outweigh its benefits.

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  • Arturo Aguilar & Emilio Gutiérrez & Paula Soto Villagrán, 2021. "Benefits and Unintended Consequences of Gender Segregation in Public Transportation: Evidence from Mexico City’s Subway System," Economic Development and Cultural Change, University of Chicago Press, vol. 69(4), pages 1379-1410.
    • Handle: RePEc:ucp:ecdecc:doi:10.1086/707421
    DOI: 10.1086/707421
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    1. Balasubramanian, Pooja & Ibanez, Marcela & Khan, Sarah & Sahoo, Soham, 2024. "Does women's economic empowerment promote human development in low- and middle-income countries? A meta-analysis," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 178(C).
    2. Borker, Girija, 2024. "Understanding the constraints to women’s use of urban public transport in developing countries," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 180(C).
    3. Seema Jayachandran, 2021. "Social Norms as a Barrier to Women’s Employment in Developing Countries," IMF Economic Review, Palgrave Macmillan;International Monetary Fund, vol. 69(3), pages 576-595, September.
    4. Small, Sarah F. & van der Meulen Rodgers, Yana, 2023. "The gendered effects of investing in physical and social infrastructure," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 171(C).
    5. Kh Md Nahiduzzaman & Tiziana Campisi & Amin Mohammadpour Shotorbani & Khaled Assi & Kasun Hewage & Rehan Sadiq, 2021. "Influence of Socio-Cultural Attributes on Stigmatizing Public Transport in Saudi Arabia," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(21), pages 1-23, November.

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