For Better or for Worse?: Education and the Prevalence of Domestic Violence in Turkey
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Abstract
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-and-a-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.Citation
Erten, Bilge, and Pinar Keskin. 2018. "For Better or for Worse?: Education and the Prevalence of Domestic Violence in Turkey." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 10 (1): 64-105. DOI: 10.1257/app.20160278Additional Materials
JEL Classification
- I21 Analysis of Education
- I28 Education: Government Policy
- J12 Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure; Domestic Abuse
- J16 Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
- J24 Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
- O15 Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
- O18 Economic Development: Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure
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