Does Knowledge Empower? Education, Legal Awareness, and Intimate Partner Violence.
This article exploits the rollout of the 1997 Basic Education Program in Turkey, a reform that extended compulsory school attendance, to estimate the causal effects of education on women's awareness of laws designed to reduce gender inequality and prevent domestic violence. The study implements a re...
| Publicado en: | Feminist Economics Vol. 28; no. 4; pp. 29 - 60 |
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