Elena Stancanelli (@elenastancanelli.bsky.social)

A vignette study of work from home and attitudes to household work Work from home has boomed since the Covid pandemic. This column uses a vignette experiment to explore how working from home links to gendered attitudes about household work and childcare in Netherlands. When presented with various routine and emergency chores, survey respondents agree, on average, that the partner working from home should execute them. The extent of agreement is significantly larger when the vignette randomly depicts a man, rather than a woman, working from home, indicating that work from home may blast rather than boost gender norms around household work and childcare. https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/vignette-study-work-home-and-attitudes-household-work