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.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 15653
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Health: General
Health and Inequality
Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: General
- Thema
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COVID-19
loneliness
life satisfaction
gender
SOEP
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Lepinteur, Anthony
Clark, Andrew E.
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada
Piper, Alan
Schröder, Carsten
D'Ambrosio, Conchita
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
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Bonn
- (wann)
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2022
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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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