Abigail Weitzman
DOES INCREASING WOMEN'S EDUCATION REDUCE THEIR RISK OF INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE? EVIDENCE FROM AN EDUCATION POLICY REFORM
The University of Texas at Austin
abstract although scholars employed rigorous causal methods examine relationship education crime taken causal approach study education intimate partner violence ipv specifically social causation perspective improving womens education protect violence yet social selection perspective education could proxy unobserved factors explain negative associations education ipv study adjudicate two possibilities using exogenous source variation educationa 1990s compulsory schooling reform peru specifically conduct instrumented regression discontinuity implicitly controls womens unobserved endowments comparing women aged slightly younger n 8195 slightly older n 6645 schoolage cutoff time reform consistent social causation perspective increasing womens schooling reduced recent longer term probabilities psychological physical sexual ipv well recent longer term probabilities experiencing ipv polyvictimization results supplemental mediation analyses provide support three interrelated causal pathwaysimprovements womens personal resources delayed family formation changes partner selection findings confirm protective effects womens education illuminate mechanistic processes occurs