outcomes between men and women, and urban and rural residents using the Turkish Demographic and Health Surveys. This policy is … women. The policy equalizes the educational attainment of urban and rural children substantially. The urban-rural gap in the … completed years of schooling at age 17 falls by 0.5 years for men and by 0.7 to 0.8 years for women. However, there is no …

In this paper, we estimate the returns on schooling for young men and women in Turkey using the exogenous and … among 18- to 26-year-olds, the return from an extra year of schooling is almost zero for men and 3.8 percent for women. The … reasons why the returns on schooling are low and why they are higher for women in our context. In particular, the policy …

Using the 2008 Turkish National Survey of Domestic Violence against Women (NSDVW) and the 1997 compulsory schooling … women's education increases the psychological violence and financial control behavior that they face from their partners …. The authors also claim that the incidence of financial control behavior rises because women become more likely to be …

Using the 2008 Turkish National Survey of Domestic Violence against Women, Erten and Keskin (2018, henceforth EK …), published in AEJ-Applied Economics, find that women's education increases the psychological violence and financial control … because women become more likely to be employed-supporting the instrumental violence hypothesis. They present this evidence …

violence (IPV) among Syrian women in Jordan, the country with the second highest refugee-to-native ratio worldwide. We analyze …. Our findings demonstrate that war and refugee status increase the risk of IPV, and these findings persist for women who … exacerbates the risk of IPV among these women. In addition, we explore whether the civil war and refugee status alter marriage …