Working paper
The Impact of Import Competition in the US on Implicit Bias: Evidence from the China Syndrome
With Dr. Xiaodong Fan
The Impact of Working from Home on Family Relationships and Adolescents’ Development
With A/Prof. Liang Choon Wang and Dr. Xiaodong Fan
This paper explores the impact of mothers’ frequency of working from home on family relationships and the development of adolescent children.
Using a fixed-effect instrumental variable approach and data from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC) and HILDA, the study finds that increased maternal working-from-home frequency enhances family cohesion and adolescents’ social interactions and optimism. It reduces adolescents’ social media use, academic stress, and alcohol consumption, but negatively affects their study motivation and concentration. Effects vary by adolescent gender.