PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Kotsadam, Andreas AU - Villanger, Espen TI - Jobs and Intimate Partner Violence - Evidence from a Field Experiment in Ethiopia AID - 10.3368/jhr.0721-11780R2 DP - 2022 Aug 05 TA - Journal of Human Resources PG - 0721-11780R2 4099 - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/2022/08/01/jhr.0721-11780R2.short 4100 - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/2022/08/01/jhr.0721-11780R2.full AB - We identify the effects of employment on Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) by collaborating with 27 large companies in Ethiopia to randomly assign jobs to equally qualified female applicants. The job offers increase employment, total hours worked, income, earnings, and earnings shares within couples in the short and medium run but we find no effects on our main pre-registered outcome, physical IPV. In particular, we can reject relatively small positive increases of physical IPV. In the short run, job offers reduce emotional abuse by 26 percent.