RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Jobs and Intimate Partner Violence
JF Journal of Human Resources
FD University of Wisconsin Press
SP 469
OP 495
DO 10.3368/jhr.0721-11780R2
VO 60
IS 2
A1 Kotsadam, Andreas
A1 Villanger, Espen
YR 2025
UL http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/60/2/469.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 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.