Jobs and Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Ethiopia

Andreas Kotsadam and Espen Villanger

Journal of Human Resources, 2025, vol. 60, issue 2, 469-495

Abstract: 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.

JEL-codes: J01 J16 O12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
Note: DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.0721-11780R2
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