Jobs and Intimate Partner Violence

Download or read book Jobs and Intimate Partner Violence written by Andreas Kotsadam and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 formal employment, earnings, and earnings shares within couples in the short and medium run but we can reject relatively small effects in any direction on our main outcome, physical IPV. In the short run, job offers reduce emotional abuse and there are indications of heterogeneous effects whereby women with low bargaining power at baseline experience increased risks of abuse if offered a job.