Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/232818 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 14066
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We investigate the impact of female employment on intimate partner violence by exploiting the differential arrivals of Syrian refugees across Turkish provinces as an exogenous labor market shock. By employing a distance-based instrument, we find that refugee inflows caused a decline in female employment with no significant impact on male employment. This decline led to a reduction in intimate partner violence, without changes in partner characteristics, gender attitudes, co-residence patterns, or division of labor. Our results are consistent with instrumental theories of violence: a decline in female earning opportunities reduces the incentives of men to use violence for rent extraction.
Subjects: 
refugees
forced migration
employment
intimate partner violence
JEL: 
F22
J12
O15
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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