RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Jobs and Intimate Partner Violence - Evidence from a Field Experiment in Ethiopia
JF Journal of Human Resources
JO J Hum Resour
FD University of Wisconsin Press
SP 0721-11780R2
DO 10.3368/jhr.0721-11780R2
A1 Andreas Kotsadam
A1 Espen Villanger
YR 2022
UL http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/2022/08/01/jhr.0721-11780R2.abstract
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.