Do women misreport domestic violence: evidence from couple data
Author
Vergili, Ali Yasin
Advisor
Akyol, Şaziye Pelin
Date
2019-07Publisher
Bilkent University
Language
English
Type
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The literature on domestic violence against women excessively employs survey data
in which there is only women side of the violence. In this study by benefiting from
a couple data, we use both men and women reporting of violence to understand if
education has an impact on violence reporting. Common factors can affect violence
reporting and endogeneity problem arises. This paper exploits an exogenous increase
in mandatory years of schooling in Turkey to avoid endogeneity problem arises from
education. The emphasis of the paper is on the connection between reporting violence
behavior of couples and their education. Schooling reform increased junior
high school completion rate by 10 ppt for married women and 16 ppt for married
men in the sample. Increased schooling of women raises the probability of underreporting
psychological violence while it reduces the probability of over-reporting
physical violence. Hence one should be careful inferring causal relations from onepartner
data while studying on sensitive behaviors.