We utilize a natural experiment, an education reform increasing compulsory schooling from five to eight years in Turkey … 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 …

(CEL) of 1997, and the differentiation in its implementation across regions, as instruments for schooling of young mothers … in Turkey. The CEL increased the compulsory years of schooling of those born after 1986 from 5 to 8 years. We find that … education of mothers increases the probability of completing the full course of DPT and Hepatitis B vaccinations for their …

This paper analyzes the relationship between education and health outcomes using a natural experiment in Turkey. The … substantially increased education in Turkey. Using the number of new middle school class openings per 1000 children as an intensity …

, we find robust evidence that violence experienced by mothers at the hands of her husband significantly increases the …In this paper, we empirically estimate the causal impact of maternal domestic violence on the nutritional status of her … likelihood of her children being malnourished. When we focus on identifying the pathways through which domestic violence affect …

Ample empirical evidence has found that access to childcare for preschool children increases mothers' labor force … quality of jobs mothers find by estimating the causal effect of a school schedule reform in Chile. Combining plausibly … exogenous temporal and spatial variations in school schedules with a panel of individual mothers' employment between 2002 and …

university education in Turkey and migration to Germany. We implement bounds testing procedures to ascertain the long …