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

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  • Andreas Kotsadam
  • Espen Villanger

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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.

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  • Andreas Kotsadam & Espen Villanger, 2025. "Jobs and Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Ethiopia," Journal of Human Resources, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 60(2), pages 469-495.
    • Handle: RePEc:uwp:jhriss:v:60:y:2025:i:2:p:469-495
    Note: DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.0721-11780R2
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    JEL classification:

    • J01 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - General - - - Labor Economics: General
    • J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
    • O12 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development

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