Does working from home work? Evidence from a chinese experiment

Quarterly Journal of Economics

Volumn 130, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 165-218

  Bloom, Nicholas ^a,b,c   Liang, James ^d,e   Roberts, John ^a,f   Ying, Zhichun Jenny ^a,g  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CEP   (United States)

^c NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^d Peking University   (China)

^e Ctrip Headquarters   (China)

^f STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g International Arbitration and Litigation Practice   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LEARNING; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT;

CHINA;

EID: 84924674515     PISSN: 00335533     EISSN: 15314650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/qje/qju032     Document Type: Article

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