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Economic Inquiry (2025) — Open Access
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Economic Inquiry (2025) — Open Access
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We find that across both US (CPS) and Europe (ESS), people from more individualistic cultures are much more likely to work from home — even within the same city and occupation.
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🧩 Correlation or causation?
To isolate the influence of individualism from institutional and economic confounders, we compare immigrants living in the same labor markets but coming from different cultural backgrounds.
💻 Remote work is the new normal for millions of employees.
But who actually wants to work from home?
Our newly published paper shows: culture matters. People from more individualistic cultures — where autonomy & independence are prized — are much more likely to work remotely.
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9/ Based on our initial and extended replications, we wonder: how can the editor still trust the results of this paper? If this case does not meet the criteria for retraction, what does?
It was great having you here! And what a fascinating paper! Looking forward to catching up again soon.
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We thank the reviewers for their many constructive comments, which have improved the manuscript significantly.