Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/270894 
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Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
GLO Discussion Paper No. 1265
Publisher: 
Global Labor Organization (GLO), Essen
Abstract: 
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.
Subjects: 
mental health
working from home
worker wellbeing
instrumental variable
JEL: 
D00
I18
J81
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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