Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/250434 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 14773
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We use longitudinal data from the SHARE survey to estimate the causal effect of remote working during the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health of senior Europeans. We face endogeneity concerns both for the probability of being employed during the pandemic and for the choice of different work arrangements conditional on employment. Our research design overcomes these issues by exploiting variation in the technical feasibility of remote working across occupations and in the legal restrictions to in-presence work across sectors. We estimate heterogeneous effects of remote working on mental health: we find negative effects for respondents with children at home and for those living in countries with low restrictions or low excess death rates due to the pandemic. On the other hand, the effect is positive for men and for respondents with no co-residing children.
Subjects: 
mental health
remote working
COVID-19
SHARE
JEL: 
I10
J22
J24
J81
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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