Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/250579 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 14918
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We study the impact of trade-induced changes in labor market conditions on violence within the household. We exploit the local labor demand shocks generated by Cambodia's WTO accession to assess how changes in the employment of women relative to men affected the risk of intimate partner violence. We document that men indistricts facing larger tariff reductions experienced a significant decline in paid employment, whereas women in harder-hit districts increased their entry into the laborforce. These changes in employment patterns triggered backlash effects by increasing intimate partner violence, without changes in marriage, fertility, psychological distress, or household consumption.
Subjects: 
trade
intimate partner violence
employment
marriage
fertility
consumption
Cambodia
JEL: 
F16
O15
J12
J16
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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