%0 Report
        %A Erten, Bilge
%A Keskin, Pinar
        %T Female Employment and Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence from Syrian Refugee Inflows to Turkey
        %D 2021
        %8 2021 Jan
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 14066
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp14066
        %X 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.
        %K intimate partner violence
%K refugees
%K forced migration
%K employment