The causal effect of working from home on mental health of 50+ Europeans

Marco Bertoni, Danilo Cavapozzi, Giacomo Pasini and Caterina Pavese

The Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2025, vol. 31, issue C

Abstract: We develop an identification strategy for the causal effect of working from home on mental health leveraging policy-induced variation during the Covid-19 pandemic. We overcome endogeneity by combining longitudinal microdata with the cross-sectional variation in the feasibility of remote working across occupations and in the legal restrictions to in-presence work across sectors. In our sample of 50+ Europeans, remote working increases feelings of sadness and depression, especially for women, parents with adult children at home, and in regions with strict containment measures and low excess mortality.

Keywords: Mental health; Working from home; Covid-19, SHARE (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I10 J22 J24 J81 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jeoa.2025.100560

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