PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Kotsadam, Andreas
AU  - Villanger, Espen
TI  - Jobs and Intimate Partner Violence
AID  - 10.3368/jhr.0721-11780R2
DP  - 2025 Mar 01
TA  - Journal of Human Resources
PG  - 469--495
VI  - 60
IP  - 2
4099  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/60/2/469.short
4100  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/60/2/469.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 preregistered 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.