" mechanism, where husbands exercise violence to regain power within marriage. …Violence against women is persisting in many parts of the world. At the same time, there is a global trend of increased … female labour force participation. In this paper we study the effect on intimate partner violence of a large public work …

Intimate partner violence is a serious form of unfreedom inflicted on women across the world. How does the incidence of … such violence vary with women's workforce participation - a factor that is supposed to enhance their economic well … as endogenous, we find that it is associated with a significantly higher probability of reported spousal violence for …

We investigate the impact of female employment on intimate partner violence by exploiting the differential arrivals of … 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 …