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Trade-Offs? The Impact of WTO Accession on Intimate Partner Violence in Cambodia

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  • Erten, Bilge

    (Northeastern University)

  • Keskin, Pinar

    (Wellesley College)

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We study the impact of trade-induced changes in labor market conditions on violence within the household. We exploit the local labor demand shocks generated by Cambodia’s WTO accession to assess how changes in the employment of women relative to men affected the risk of intimate partner violence. We document that men indistricts facing larger tariff reductions experienced a significant decline in paid employment, whereas women in harder-hit districts increased their entry into the laborforce. These changes in employment patterns triggered backlash effects by increasing intimate partner violence, without changes in marriage, fertility, psychological distress, or household consumption.

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  • Erten, Bilge & Keskin, Pinar, 2021. "Trade-Offs? The Impact of WTO Accession on Intimate Partner Violence in Cambodia," IZA Discussion Papers 14918, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
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    Keywords

    consumption; fertility; marriage; employment; intimate partner violence; trade; Cambodia;
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    JEL classification:

    • F16 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Trade and Labor Market Interactions
    • O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
    • J12 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure
    • J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination

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