TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Erten, Bilge
AU  - Keskin, Pinar
        TI  - Female Employment and Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence from Syrian Refugee Inflows to Turkey
        PY  - 2021/Jan/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 14066
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp14066
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - intimate partner violence
KW  - refugees
KW  - forced migration
KW  - employment
        ER  -