Understanding the Role of Education in Breaking the Occurrence of Domestic Violence in Peru

• In Event: 53.078 - Social Consequences of Educational Inequality: International Perspectives

Abstract

Unlike other common proxies of SES such as income and occupation, prior research has found no conclusive evidence regarding the effects of education on the likelihood of domestic violence against women and children. Heterogeneity in these results suggests the need of investigating whether there are common patterns in these effects and how to explain this variability across populations and time. There is also extensive literature examining how social norms are highly influential in shaping individual behavior and, in particular, violent behaviors. Based on the Population Education Transition (PET) approach and using data for Peru, the purpose of this study is to examine how education may interact with the development of social norms in order to shift education-DV gradients over time.

Author

• ISMAEL GUILLERMO MUNOZ, The Pennsylvania State University - University Park