Arbeitspapier

Gender, Loneliness and Happiness during COVID-19

We analyse a measure of loneliness from a representative sample of German individuals interviewed in both 2017 and at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Both men and women felt lonelier during the COVID-19 pandemic than they did in 2017. The pandemic more than doubled the gender loneliness gap: women were lonelier than men in 2017, and the 2017-2020 rise in loneliness was far larger for women. This rise is mirrored in life-satisfaction scores. Men's life satisfaction changed only little between 2017 and 2020; yet that of women fell dramatically, and sufficiently so to produce a female penalty in life satisfaction. We estimate that almost all of this female penalty is explained by the disproportionate rise in loneliness for women during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 15653

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Health: General
Health and Inequality
Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: General
Thema
COVID-19
loneliness
life satisfaction
gender
SOEP

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Lepinteur, Anthony
Clark, Andrew E.
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada
Piper, Alan
Schröder, Carsten
D'Ambrosio, Conchita
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2022

Handle
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10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Lepinteur, Anthony
  • Clark, Andrew E.
  • Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada
  • Piper, Alan
  • Schröder, Carsten
  • D'Ambrosio, Conchita
  • Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2022

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