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| Title: | | Religion and intimate partner violence in Chile: macro- and micro-level influences  |
| Authors: | | Lehrer, Evelyn Lilian Lehrer, Vivian L. Krauss, Ramona |
| Issue Date: | | 2009 |
| Series/Report no.: | | IZA discussion papers 4067 |
| 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. |
| Subjects: | | Intimate partner violence religion |
| JEL: | | Z12 J12 J16 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | urn:nbn:de:101:1-20090327394 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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