Remote Work, Children's Health and the Racial Gap in Female Wages

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This paper studies the racial gap in the female wage penalty to remote work. Using a temporary child health problem as a source of exogenous variation in the propensity to work from home, wage penalties reach 86 percent for black women and 77 percent for white women. Promotion bias, task re-assignment and lack of productive social interaction are the most likely mechanisms for the wage losses. The estimates provide rare evidence on the differential costs of social distancing by race and may be especially applicable when children are temporarily quarantined due to illness.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 15072

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Single Equation Models: Single Variables: Instrumental Variables (IV) Estimation ; Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth ; Time Allocation and Labor Supply ; Health: Other
• Subject: female labor supply ; female earnings ; race ; remote work ; telecommuting ; flexible working arrangements ; fertility ; health

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Kouki, Amairisa ; Sauer, Robert M.
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2022

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/252196
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET