TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Kotsadam, Andreas
AU  - Løvgren, Mette
AU  - Moreau, Nicolas
AU  - Stancanelli, Elena G. F.
AU  - Soest, Arthur van
        TI  - When Gender Kicks In: An Experimental Study of Work from Home and Attitudes to Household Work and Childcare
        PY  - 2025/Dec/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 18324
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp18324
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - gender norms
KW  - household work
KW  - work from home
KW  - vignette
        ER  -