Kouki, Amairisa; Sauer, Robert M. - 2020
Using data on American women and the health status of their children, this paper studies the effect of remote work on … female earnings. Instrumental variables estimates, which exploit a temporary child health shock as exogenous variation in the … propensity to work at home, yield an hourly wage penalty of 77.1 percent. Earnings losses together with positive selection, and …