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 …

is limited. We analyze the impact of education on mental health using survey data on self-reported health of Turkish … women. To deal with the potential endogeneity, we rely on a natural experiment: an increase in the compulsory education from … 5 to 8 years in 1997. The results suggest that education has a favorable effect on mental health, physical health, and …

We study the causal effect of maternal education on childhood immunization rates. We use the Compulsory Education Law … education of mothers increases the probability of completing the full course of DPT and Hepatitis B vaccinations for their … children. Furthermore, education increases the age of first marriage and birth, changes women`s and their spouse’s labour …

We study the causal effect of maternal education on childhood immunization rates. We use the Compulsory Education Law … education of mothers increases the probability of completing the full course of DPT and Hepatitis B vaccinations for their …

Does education make people more or less religious? The previous literature offers mixed findings on the relationship … between education and religiosity. This may be due to endogeneity bias: education and religiosity can be caused by a third … variable such as culture or upbringing. We instrument education by exposure to the 1997 education reform in Türkiye which …

began, but a lack of resources and policies to protect poor families hampered children’s access to education, especially for … non-compulsory school grades. Different phenomena associated with transition also negatively affected children’s education … focus on education and for monitoring of the schooling progress of children in special family circumstances. …

We estimate the effects of college education on female fertility – a so far understudied margin of education, which we … instrument by arguably exogenous variation induced through college expansions. While college education reduces the probability of … becoming a mother, college-educated mothers have slightly more children than mothers without a college education. Unfolding the …