For Better or for Worse?: Education and the Prevalence of Domestic Violence in Turkey
| Autor: | Bilge Erten, Pinar Keskin |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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05 social sciences Causal effect Human development (humanity) Income distribution Political science 0502 economics and business Regression discontinuity design Domestic violence Demographic economics 050207 economics Rural area Rural women General Economics Econometrics and Finance 050205 econometrics |
| Zdroj: | American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. 10:64-105 |
| ISSN: | 1945-7790 1945-7782 |
| Popis: | We exploit a change in the compulsory schooling law in Turkey to estimate the causal effects of education on the prevalence of domestic violence. By adopting a regression discontinuity design, we find that the reform increased women's schooling by one year to one-anda-half years and improved their labor market outcomes, with particularly strong effects for women raised in rural areas. The increase in education among rural women led to an increase in self-reported psychological violence and financial control behavior, without changes in physical violence, partner characteristics, or women's attitudes towards such violence. (JEL I21, I28, J12, J16, J24, O15, O18) |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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