TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Rodríguez-Planas, Núria
        TI  - The Societal Response Index: Measuring Public Response to Sexual Misconduct Disclosure
        PY  - 2026/Jul/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 18775
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp18775
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - societal response
KW  - public attention
KW  - index construction
KW  - text as data
KW  - sexual misconduct
KW  - gender violence
KW  - pre-registration
KW  - Spain
KW  - United States
KW  - France
        ER  -