Existing economic literature demonstrates that gender-oriented conditional cash transfer programs modify women’s economic opportunities and consequently, their power status within their households. Nonetheless, these studies are not conclusive in determining whether or not this improved position of power has the potential to significantly alter the chances of women to suffer from intimate partner violence. By applying a series of difference indifferences and propensity score matching techniques to data on the Mexican Family Life Survey, this paper investigates the impact of the Mexican program Oportunidades on a novel indicator of emotional abuse among intimate partners. Results demonstrate that women in households that are eligible for participation into Oportunidades are less likely to suffer from psychological violence by the hands of their couples, an effect that becomes even stronger when those households actually participate into the program. When assessing the potential heterogeneity of such an impact, however, this relationship appears to exclusively hold within the urban setting.