Does Knowledge Empower? Education, Legal Awareness, and Intimate Partner Violence

IF 3.3 2区经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS

Feminist Economics Pub Date : 2022-05-03 DOI:10.1080/13545701.2022.2061029

Bilge Erten, P. Keskin

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Abstract

ABSTRACT This article exploits the rollout of the 1997 Basic Education Program in Turkey, a reform that extended compulsory school attendance, to estimate the causal effects of education on women’s awareness of laws designed to reduce gender inequality and prevent domestic violence. The study implements a regression-discontinuity design and finds that the additional years of schooling improved women’s legal awareness. Women exposed to the education reform were more likely to have heard about the new laws and services through newspapers, journals, or books. However, despite these improvements, the study finds no evidence of a significant change in the risk of women experiencing domestic violence or their ability to quit abusive relationships. HIGHLIGHTS Multiple barriers undermine women’s access to the justice system in Turkey. Education reform helped remove one such barrier: women’s legal awareness of their rights. However, legal awareness did not translate into significant changes in incidence of domestic violence. Raising awareness is a necessary first step but not enough to empower women to access to legal institutions.

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知识赋予力量吗?教育、法律意识和亲密伴侣暴力

本文利用1997年土耳其基础教育计划(一项扩大义务教育入学率的改革)的推出，来估计教育对妇女对旨在减少性别不平等和防止家庭暴力的法律意识的因果影响。该研究采用了非连续性回归设计，发现额外的受教育年限提高了女性的法律意识。接触到教育改革的妇女更有可能通过报纸、期刊或书籍了解到新的法律和服务。然而，尽管有这些改善，研究发现没有证据表明妇女遭受家庭暴力的风险或她们摆脱虐待关系的能力有重大变化。在土耳其，多重障碍阻碍了妇女进入司法系统。教育改革帮助消除了其中一个障碍:妇女对自己权利的法律意识。然而，法律意识并没有转化为家庭暴力发生率的重大变化。提高认识是必要的第一步，但还不足以使妇女有能力进入法律机构。

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7.50

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期刊介绍： Feminist Economics is a peer-reviewed journal that provides an open forum for dialogue and debate about feminist economic perspectives. By opening new areas of economic inquiry, welcoming diverse voices, and encouraging critical exchanges, the journal enlarges and enriches economic discourse. The goal of Feminist Economics is not just to develop more illuminating theories but to improve the conditions of living for all children, women, and men. Feminist Economics: -Advances feminist inquiry into economic issues affecting the lives of children, women, and men -Examines the relationship between gender and power in the economy and the construction and legitimization of economic knowledge -Extends feminist theoretical, historical, and methodological contributions to economics and the economy -Offers feminist insights into the underlying constructs of the economics discipline and into the historical, political, and cultural context of economic knowledge -Provides a feminist rethinking of theory and policy in diverse fields, including those not directly related to gender -Stimulates discussions among diverse scholars worldwide and from a broad spectrum of intellectual traditions, welcoming cross-disciplinary and cross-country perspectives, especially from countries in the South