Fall 2020 GPOD Grant Recipient
Sheetal Sekhri (Economics), Amalia Miller (Economics), Sarah Ratcliffe (Medicine), and David Evans (Engineering)
This project aims to advance scientific understanding of the potential value of information and
communication technologies (ICTs) to reduce gender-based violence (GBV). Although GBV imposes
substantial economic and social costs, the available policy tools are limited in either their effectiveness or
their scope for large-scale use. ICT’s ability to significantly reduce costs of vast outreach presents an
opportunity to overcome the impediments to increasing the scale of effective interventions. Using a series of experiments, we aim to investigate the viability of ICT as a lever to address intimate partner violence, the most prevalent form of GBV worldwide.