Johanna Rickne, professor of economics at the Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI). Photo: Magnus Bergström/Wallenberg Foundation.

Sexual harassment is a severe and highly prevalent workplace hazard. Despite its prevalence and severity, little is known about how to effectively prevent the practice.

This project will extend the empirical and theoretical research frontiers on sexual harassment prevention. It will evaluate existing and new prevention methods with large field experiments in the labor market, study policy-relevant determinants of harassment, and document the potential costs and benefits of harassment prevention in organizations. The project uses quantitative methods in the form of field experiments, survey experiments, and statistical analysis of observational data.

I am very happy to have received this grant. This means that we can expand the research of the interdisciplinary group that studies equality issues at SOFI, says Johanna Rickne.

RE-SHAPE is one of several projects that are ongoing within SOFI's interdisciplinary research group that studies gender in the economy. In 2017, Johanna Rickne co-founded the group, an interdisciplinary research environment that aims to facilitate social science research on issues related to gender. The focus area includes the labor market, health, and family relations and the group's main purpose is to bring together researchers and practitioners for an interdisciplinary dialogue on gender in the economy.

Read more about the ERC Consolidator Grant