We also look at other outcomes. More WFH cut commute times and lowered hourly wages slightly, with no change in usual hours worked. Comments welcome!

We then extend their design to look at workers aged 50 to 64 and find an increase in employment of about 0.4%. Full-time employment trends among older workers was flat overall, so this likely reflects retention and shifts toward occupations where remote work grew.

We still find effects close to the US estimates. Instrumenting with pre-Covid remote feasibility, a 1 pp rise in WFH raises full-time employment of physically disabled workers by about 0.9%. This is similar to what Bloom, Dahl and Rooth (2026, AER: Insights) find in the US.

The UK is a useful test case. Disabled workers there are more concentrated in jobs that are hard to do from home, UK surveys define disability more broadly, and furlough kept many people attached to their jobs during Covid. Each of these could have muted the effect.

but I DID giggle when they flirted in the context of type one and type two errors

Thank you! I definitely didn’t start my project with this in the plan, but I’m glad other people might be able to use these data now too!

The public version was already on my website (see the quoted post), but the Technical Note is finally available! Researchers with approved projects in the FSRDC working with 1981-87 CPS will be able to request access to these files including the full report and Stata code.

Congrats Andy!!

Thanks Chris!!