Browsing by Author "Akyol, Pelin"

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    • Compulsory schooling reform and intimate partner violence in Turkey 

      Akyol, Pelin; Kırdar, M. G. (Elsevier, 2022-11)
      We examine how Turkey's 1997 compulsory schooling policy affects intimate partner violence (IPV) using the 2008 and 2014 Turkish National Survey of Domestic Violence Against Women and regression discontinuity design. We ...

    • Education and voluntary work: Evidence from Turkish time use survey 

      Akar, B.; Akyol, Pelin; Okten, Çağla (Springer, 2022-06)
      We use the extension of compulsory education from five to eight years in Turkey as an instrument for educational attainment to investigate the causal effects of education on voluntary work by utilizing Turkish Time Use ...

    • Hit or miss? Test taking behavior in multiple choice exams 

      Akyol, Pelin (Groupe des Ecoles Nationales d'Economie et Statistique (GENES), 2022-09)
      This paper is the first to structurally model how a test taker answers questions in a multiple choice exam. We allow for the possibility of a penalty for a wrong answer which makes risk averse examinees more likely to skip ...

    • The role of religion in female labor supply: Evidence from two Muslim denominations 

      Akyol, Pelin; Ökten, Çaǧla (Cambridge University Press, 2022)
      This paper investigates the association between religion and female labor market outcomes using new micro-level data on two distinct Muslim denominations in Turkey: Sunni and Alevi Muslims. We find a positive and significant ...

    • Taking PISA seriously: how accurate are low-stakes exams? 

      Akyol, Pelin; Krishna, K.; Wang, J. (Springer, 2021-06)
      PISA is seen as the gold standard for evaluating educational outcomes worldwide. Yet, being a low-stakes exam, students may not take it seriously resulting in downward biased scores and inaccurate rankings. This paper ...