Her job, her safety? Domestic violence and women’s economic empowerment in Ethiopia
Domestic violence against women is a pervasive public health problem in all countries regardless of cultural, economic, and political background. Yet, the prevalence of domestic violence is very high in sub-Saharan Africa. In this paper, I examine the effect of women’s employment on domestic violenc...
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| description | Domestic violence against women is a pervasive public health problem in all countries regardless of cultural, economic, and political background. Yet, the prevalence of domestic violence is very high in sub-Saharan Africa. In this paper, I examine the effect of women’s employment on domestic violence using the Demographic and Health Survey in Ethiopia. Using the Instrumental Variables approach, this paper exploits exogenous geographical variation of the employment rate of women to address the endogeneity of women’s employment decisions due to reverse causality. After accounting for the endogeneity issue, the estimation result shows that women’s employment significantly reduces the risk of domestic violence. This result holds robust across different dimensions such as physical, sexual, and emotional violence and for urban and rural places of residence. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-df08394efe774f3ca39e13ef75d93a1d2025-08-20T03:05:25ZengTaylor & Francis GroupJournal of Applied Economics1514-03261667-67262025-12-0128110.1080/15140326.2025.2465100Her job, her safety? Domestic violence and women’s economic empowerment in EthiopiaFenet Jima Bedaso0Department of Economics, Trier University & GLO, Trier, GermanyDomestic violence against women is a pervasive public health problem in all countries regardless of cultural, economic, and political background. Yet, the prevalence of domestic violence is very high in sub-Saharan Africa. In this paper, I examine the effect of women’s employment on domestic violence using the Demographic and Health Survey in Ethiopia. Using the Instrumental Variables approach, this paper exploits exogenous geographical variation of the employment rate of women to address the endogeneity of women’s employment decisions due to reverse causality. After accounting for the endogeneity issue, the estimation result shows that women’s employment significantly reduces the risk of domestic violence. This result holds robust across different dimensions such as physical, sexual, and emotional violence and for urban and rural places of residence.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/15140326.2025.2465100women’s employmentinstrumental variables estimationsdemographic and health survey |
| spellingShingle | Fenet Jima Bedaso Her job, her safety? Domestic violence and women’s economic empowerment in Ethiopia Journal of Applied Economics women’s employment instrumental variables estimations demographic and health survey |
| title | Her job, her safety? Domestic violence and women’s economic empowerment in Ethiopia |
| title_full | Her job, her safety? Domestic violence and women’s economic empowerment in Ethiopia |
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| title_short | Her job, her safety? Domestic violence and women’s economic empowerment in Ethiopia |
| title_sort | her job her safety domestic violence and women s economic empowerment in ethiopia |
| topic | women’s employment instrumental variables estimations demographic and health survey |
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