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.

我们通过利用土耳其难民跨越土耳其各省的差异入境作为外来劳动力市场冲击来调查女性就业对亲密伴侣暴力的影响。通过使用基于距离的工具，我们发现难民的涌入导致女性就业率下降，而对男性就业率没有重大影响。这种下降导致亲密伴侣的暴力行为减少，而伴侣特征，性别态度，共同居住模式或分工没有变化。我们的研究结果与暴力的工具理论是一致的：女性赚钱机会的减少减少了男性利用暴力获取租金的动机。