Table 5.

Second Stage Results Predicting Theoretical Mechanisms

	Mechanism 1: Women’s resources						Mechanism 2: Family formation				Mechanism 3: Partner’s resources				Mechanism 4: Attitudes
	Literate		Employed		Occupa- tional prestigea		Married as teen		1st birth as teen		Years of schooling		Occupa- tional prestigeb		IPV is OKd
Estimated years of education	.01	***	.01		.38	***	−.05	***	−.05	***	.34	***	.30	***	−.01	**
	(.00)	***	(.01)		(.04)		(.01)		(.01)		(.04)		(.03)		(.00)
Constant	.83		0.71	***	.48		1.03	***	.99	***	6.33	***	1.04	**	.17	***
	(.04)		(0.06)		(.43)		(.06)		(.06)		(.38)		(.34)		(.03)
N	14,825		14,835		7,586		14,836		14,836		14,743		10,336		14,592

Note: All models adjust for ethnolinguistic background, childhood location; number of siblings, history of family violence, and state of residence.

Robust standard errors in parentheses, clustered by survey cluster

^***p<0.001,

^**p<0.01,

^*p<0.05,

^†p<0.1

^aOccupational prestige is calculated among employed respondents only.

^bPartner’s occupational prestige is calculated among ever-married and currently partnered respondents only. Observations in 2012 and between August and December 2010 are not included in this measure (information was not collected at these times).

^cDifference in occupational prestige is calculated among ever-married and currently partnered respondents where both the respondent and her partner were listed as having an occupation and where information on each of their occupations was available.

^dAttitudinal questions toward IPV were only asked in Peru starting in 2005. Only observations from 2005 onward are included in this measure.