Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/335972 
Year of Publication: 
2025
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 18324
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We study how working from home links to gendered attitudes about household work and childcare. Using a vignette experiment embedded in a regular Dutch population representative survey, we randomly vary the gender of the partner working from home in a hypothetical dual-earner couple. When presented with various routine and emergency chores, respondents, on average, agree that the partner working from home should execute them. These effects are significantly larger when the vignette randomly depicts a man, rather than a woman, working from home, but these gender differences in respondents' expectations vanish in a scenario where no partner works from home. All in all, the evidence gathered indicates that Work from Home may blast rather than boost gender norms around household work and childcare.
Subjects: 
work from home
household work
gender norms
vignette
JEL: 
D13
D83
J16
J22
M54
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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