Data and Code for: The Evolution of Work From Home

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Jose Maria Barrero, Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico; Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University; Steven J. Davis, Hoover Institution at Stanford University, University of Chicago Booth School of Business

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Evolution of WFH Replication			09/22/2023 12:52:PM

Project Citation:

Barrero, Jose Maria, Bloom, Nicholas, and Davis, Steven J. Data and Code for: The Evolution of Work From Home. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2023. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2023-10-05. https://doi.org/10.3886/E193587V1

Project Description

Summary: We survey the state of the economics literature on the big shift to working from home that was catalyzed by the COVID-19 pandemic. We consider measurement, causes, and implications of the big shift.

Funding Sources: Stanford University; Templeton World Charity Foundation; Smith Richardson Foundation; University of Chicago. Booth School of Business; Asociacion Mexicana de Cultura A.C.; Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence; MIT Mobility Initiative; Toulouse Network for Information Technology; Hoover Institution

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: work from home; productivity; labor costs; job amenities; pandemic

JEL Classification:
      D13 Household Production and Intrahousehold Allocation
      D23 Organizational Behavior; Transaction Costs; Property Rights
      E24 Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
      J22 Time Allocation and Labor Supply
      J31 Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
      M54 Personnel Economics: Labor Management
      R30 Real Estate Markets, Spatial Production Analysis, and Firm Location: General

Geographic Coverage: United States

Time Period(s): 1/1/1965 – 8/14/2023 (AHTUS for 1965, 1975, 1985, 1993, 1995, 1998; ATUS for each year from 2003 to 2021, SWAA data for May 2020, monthly from July 2020 to August 2023. Census Household Pulse data from Mid-2022 to Mid-2023. PCE Deflator from 1965 to 2022)

Universe: SWAA data - US residents aged 20 to 64

AHTUS and ATUS - US residents

Census Household Pulse Survey - US Households

Data Type(s): aggregate data; survey data

Methodology

Data Source: Survey of Working Arrangements and Attitudes, May 2020 to August 2023 data released in September 2023. See www.wfhresearch.com/data

Personal Consumption Expenditures Deflator from the US Bureau of Economic Analysis obtained via FRED

American Heritage Time Use Study obtained via www.ipums.org
American Time Use Survey obtained via www.ipums.org

US Census Household Pulse Survey public use files (microdata) obtained from https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/household-pulse-survey/datasets.html

Weights: Weights provided with datasets above to ensure representativeness

Unit(s) of Observation: US residents aged 20 to 64

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