| Field | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| Field Study Withdrawn | Before | After No |
| Field Intervention Completion Date | Before | After March 31, 2020 |
| Field Data Collection Complete | Before | After Yes |
| Field Final Sample Size: Number of Clusters (Unit of Randomization) | Before | After 180 police stations: 120 treated, 60 control |
| Field Was attrition correlated with treatment status? | Before | After No |
| Field Final Sample Size: Total Number of Observations | Before | After At Endline: 180 police stations; 3251 users; 1961 police officers; 3376 citizens |
| Field Final Sample Size (or Number of Clusters) by Treatment Arms | Before | After 61 "regular" treatment; 59 woman officer treatment |
| Field Public Data URL | Before | After https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/R75XVZ |
| Field Is there a restricted access data set available on request? | Before | After No |
| Field Program Files | Before | After Yes |
| Field Program Files URL | Before | After https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/R75XVZ |
| Field Data Collection Completion Date | Before | After October 31, 2020 |
| Field Is data available for public use? | Before | After Yes |
| Field | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| Field Paper Abstract | Before | After Gender-targeted police reforms are frequently proposed to tackle the global problem of rising yet underreported gender-based violence (GBV)—but with mixed and often disappointing results. We explore this issue in India, a country with alarming rates of GBV and limited police capacity, by studying the impact of Women’s Help Desks (WHDs): dedicated spaces for women in local police stations, staffed by trained officers. Drawing on the largest randomized controlled trial of a police reform to date (180 police stations serving 23.4 million people), we find that officers in stations with WHDs are more likely to register cases of GBV, particularly where female officers run the desks. This suggests that even in resource-constrained and patriarchal environments, police responsiveness can be improved by focusing and mainstreaming attention to women’s cases and by greater gender representation within the police. |
| Field Paper Citation | Before | After Sukhtankar, Sandip, Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner, and Akshay Mangla. "Policing in patriarchy: An experimental evaluation of reforms to improve police responsiveness to women in India." Science 377, no. 6602 (2022): 191-198. |
| Field Paper URL | Before | After https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abm7387 |