@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp18775,
            	author={Rodríguez-Planas, Núria},
            	title={The Societal Response Index: Measuring Public Response to Sexual Misconduct Disclosure},
            	year={2026},
	month={Jul},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={18775},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp18775},
	abstract={How societies respond after women disclose sexual misconduct shapes survivors' well-being, reporting behavior, institutional accountability, and social norms. Yet, no validated measure of society's collective public response following disclosure exists. This paper introduces the Societal Response Index (SRI), a pre-registered, multidimensional framework with 5 complementary dimensions  — volume & persistence (VP), secondary victimization, identity exposure, supportive/contested response, and temporal reactivation —  and develops and validates its first dimension, VP. Using census-level tweet counts from the X full-archive API, I construct weekly attention series for 14 sexual misconduct cases spanning Spain, the US, and France (2011--2026). VP's three highest-attention weeks fall within two weeks of a pre-registered milestone for all 14 cases; same-day detection reaches 75% and within-14-day detection reaches 91%. VP correlates positively and significantly with Google Trends for all cases. The measurement architecture, keyword dictionaries, and event timelines will be released as a public good upon publication. As an illustration of substantive reach, official reporting of sexual offenses tends to rise following case milestones.},
	keywords={societal response;public attention;index construction;text as data;sexual misconduct;gender violence;pre-registration;Spain;United States;France},
            }