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Working from home and mental health: Before and during the COVID-19 pandemic
Robust evidence on working from home and mental health is lacking, with recent concerns it may blur work-home boundaries. Working from home was discretionary and less intensive in pre-pandemic years, while during the pandemic, it was often intensive and 'mandated'. I estimate the relationship between working from home and mental health via fixed-effects and instrumental variable (IV) estimation. I find no evidence that working from home harmed mental health, on average, pre-pandemic, with IV estimates suggesting potentially improved health. Conversely, working from home may have deteriorated mental health during the pandemic, potentially due its 'forced', intensive nature during this time.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: GLO Discussion Paper ; No. 1265
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Microeconomics: General
Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
Labor Standards: Working Conditions
- Subject
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mental health
working from home
worker wellbeing
instrumental variable
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Bilgrami, Anam
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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Global Labor Organization (GLO)
- (where)
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Essen
- (when)
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2023
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Bilgrami, Anam
- Global Labor Organization (GLO)
Time of origin
- 2023
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