Lepinteur, A, Clark, AE, Ferrer-I-Carbonell, A et al. (3 more authors) (2022) Gender, Loneliness and Happiness during COVID-19. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 101. 101952. ISSN 2214-8043
Abstract
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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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license. |
Keywords: | Loneliness, Life satisfaction, Gender, COVID-19, SOEP |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Business (Leeds) > Economics Division (LUBS) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 31 Oct 2022 12:59 |
Last Modified: | 15 Mar 2023 18:36 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.socec.2022.101952 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:192655 |