Episode 22: Nick Bloom on Working From Home After the Pandemic

Nick Bloom is the William D. Eberle Professor of Economics at Stanford University

The paper discussed in this episode is “Why Working from Home Will Stick”, by Jose Maria Barrero, Nicholas Bloom & Steven J. Davis.

Other papers mentioned in this episode are:

Autor, D. H., Levy, F., & Murnane, R. J. (2003). The skill content of recent technological change: An empirical exploration. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 118(4), 1279-1333.

Bloom, N., Liang, J., Roberts, J., & Ying, Z. J. (2015). Does working from home work? Evidence from a Chinese experiment. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 130(1), 165-218.

Mas, A., & Pallais, A. (2017). Valuing alternative work arrangements. American Economic Review, 107(12), 3722-59.

Puga, D. (2010). The magnitude and causes of agglomeration economies. Journal of Regional Science, 50(1), 203-219.