Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/167653 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
GLO Discussion Paper No. 109
Publisher: 
Global Labor Organization (GLO), Maastricht
Abstract: 
We utilize a natural experiment, an education reform increasing compulsory schooling from five to eight years in Turkey, to obtain endogeneity-robust estimates of the effect of male education on the incidence of abusive and violent behaviour against women. We find that husband`s education lowers the probability of suffering physical, emotional and economic violence. The only aspect of violence not affected by spouse`s education is sexual violence. Schooling also lowers the likelihood that the marriage was arranged against the woman`s will, and makes men less inclined to engage in socially unacceptable behaviours such as drinking, gambling, and drug abuse. We also find that women whose mothers or whose husbands’ mothers experienced domestic violence are more likely to suffer violence themselves.
Subjects: 
Education
Domestic Violence
Autonomy of Women
Difference-in-Difference-in-Difference
Instrumental Variable
JEL: 
H52
I26
J12
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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