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

A-Tier
Journal: Journal of Human Resources
Year: 2025
Volume: 60
Issue: 2

Authors (2)

Andreas Kotsadam (Universitetet i Oslo) Espen Villanger (not in RePEc)

Score contribution per author:

2.011 = (α=2.01 / 2 authors) × 2.0x A-tier

α: calibrated so average coauthorship-adjusted count equals average raw count

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.

Technical Details

RePEc Handle
repec:uwp:jhriss:v:60:y:2025:i:2:p:469-495
Journal Field
Labor
Author Count
2
Added to Database
2026-01-25