@techreport{8ba48b1f12b64eda81591613a95ccedb,
title = "Working from home and mental health: before and during the COVID-19 pandemic",
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 {\textquoteleft}mandated{\textquoteright}. 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 {\textquoteleft}forced{\textquoteright}, intensive nature during this time.",
keywords = "mental health, working from home, worker wellbeing, instrumental variable",
author = "Anam Bilgrami",
year = "2023",
month = may,
language = "English",
series = "HEDG (Health Econometrics and Data Group) Working Papers",
publisher = "University of York",
number = "WP 23/03",
pages = "1--30",
address = "United Kingdom",
type = "WorkingPaper",
institution = "University of York",
}