Pre-analysis plan: Silence Kills! Conformity to Patriarchy Norms and Violence Against Women

This paper examines the role of beliefs, social norms and coordination elements on gender-based violence. We conduct an online survey experiment in Turkey to test our hypotheses on a representative sample of 4,000 respondents in Turkey, a country with the highest female homicide rates among OECD members. We use randomized treatments to see if dynamic information about how others' respond to gender violence can affect or shift individuals' own behavior. We elicit all respondents’ gender-related attitudes and ask about their behavior in a hypothetical scenario of violence where they are hypothetical bystanders.