Browsing by Subject "Reduced form regression"

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    Do women misreport domestic violence: evidence from couple data
    (2019-06) Vergili, Ali Yasin
    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.
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    Quality versus quantity the limited impact of compulsory schooling laws on household financial behavior
    (2020-08) Leka, Marie
    The low level of household financial market participation is one of the important puzzles remaining to be solved in modern economics. Yet, we have still to understand its determinants. We exploit the exogenous variation induced by a change in compulsory schooling laws in Turkey to estimate the impact of compulsory schooling laws on household borrowing and saving decisions. Using Reduced Form regressions, we find that the education reform increased the schooling level of household heads and had a positive impact on households’ propensity to hold savings in bank accounts. However, we do not observe such a relationship in the remaining measures of saving and borrowing. These results point to a limitation of the impact of policies that only increase the years of schooling on financial market participation, and highlight the importance of the inclusion of financial training in early education curriculums.