儿童安全空间：学校卫生和性暴力

IF 2.8 2区经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS

European Economic Review Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI:10.1016/j.euroecorev.2025.104952

Pei Gao , Aditi Kothari , Yu-Hsiang Lei

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摘要

本文展示了学校卫生设施不足对性别的影响，强调了它与针对儿童的性暴力的联系。通过面板分析和基于地区年数据的三差异策略，我们发现，在学校建造性别特定的厕所显著减少了儿童强奸，而对其他性犯罪（如成人强奸）没有影响。这种下降在男女同校和中学更为明显。相反，无性别厕所是无效的，因为女孩觉得使用它们不安全，继续公开排便。此外，学校卫生的威慑作用在性别规范更平等的地区更强，强调需要采取广泛的、基于文化的预防措施。

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Safe spaces for children: School sanitation and sexual violence

This paper demonstrates the gendered impact of inadequate school sanitation, highlighting its link to sexual violence against children. Using panel analysis and a triple-difference strategy with district-year data, we find that constructing sex-specific toilets in schools significantly reduces child rapes, while having no effect on other sexual crimes (e.g., adult rape). The reduction is more pronounced in co-educational and secondary schools. Conversely, unisex toilets are ineffective, because girls feel unsafe to use them and continue defecating openly. Additionally, the deterrent effect of school sanitation is stronger in areas with more gender-equal norms, emphasizing the need for broad, culture-based preventive measures.

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European Economic Review ECONOMICS-

CiteScore

4.70

自引率

3.60%

发文量

170

期刊介绍： The European Economic Review (EER) started publishing in 1969 as the first research journal specifically aiming to contribute to the development and application of economics as a science in Europe. As a broad-based professional and international journal, the EER welcomes submissions of applied and theoretical research papers in all fields of economics. The aim of the EER is to contribute to the development of the science of economics and its applications, as well as to improve communication between academic researchers, teachers and policy makers across the European continent and beyond.