The association between women's economic participation and physical and/or sexual domestic violence against women: A case study for Turkey.

ABSTRACT: We test in how far women's economic participation can be associated with physical and/or sexual domestic violence against women in Turkey, by mobilizing the Survey "National Research on Domestic Violence against Women in Turkey" (wave 2014). Several studies found that economically active women have a similar, if not a higher risk of experiencing domestic violence than inactive women in Turkey, as well as in other emerging countries. We challenge these findings for Turkey by distinguishing between formal and informal labor market activities as well as between women who do not work because their partner does not allow them to and women who are inactive for other reasons. To increase the control for endogeneity in this cross-sectional setting, we apply an IV-approach based on cluster averages

SUBMITTER: Greulich A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9668192 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature