Female employment and intimate partner violence: Evidence from Syrian Refugee inflows to Turkey*

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Erten, Bilge; Keskin, Pinar
• 署名单位: Northeastern University; Wellesley College
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0304-3878
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2020.102607
• 发表日期: 2021
• 关键词: Refugees; Forced migration; EMPLOYMENT; Intimate partner violence

摘要

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.