@techreport{Lehrer2009Religion,
abstract = {The Catholic Church has had a strong influence on the Chilean legal and social landscape in ways that have adversely affected victims of intimate partner violence; e.g., it succeeded until just five years ago in blocking efforts to legalize divorce. At the same time, quantitative studies based on survey data from the United States and other countries show a generally favorable influence of religion on health and many other domains of life, including intimate partner violence. The present study explores the puzzle posed by these seemingly opposing macro- and micro- level forces. Results based on data from the 2005 Survey of Student Well-Being, a questionnaire on gender based violence administered to students at a large public university in Chile, show that moderate or low levels of religiosity are associated with reduced vulnerability to violence, but high levels are not. This non-linearity sheds light on the puzzle, because at the macro level the religious views shaping Chile's legal and social environment have been extreme.},
address = {Bonn},
author = {Evelyn Lilian Lehrer and Vivian L. Lehrer and Ramona Krauss},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {Z12; J12; J16; 330; Intimate partner violence; religion; Religion; Geschlechterdiskriminierung; Gewalt; Chile},
language = {eng},
note = {urn:nbn:de:101:1-20090327394},
number = {4067},
publisher = {IZA},
title = {Religion and intimate partner violence in Chile: macro- and micro-level influences},
type = {IZA discussion papers},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/35438},
year = {2009}
}
