Gender, Loneliness and Happiness during COVID-19

Lepinteur, Anthony; Clark, Andrew; Ferrer-I-Carbonell, Ada; Piper, Alan; Schröder, Carsten; d'Ambrosio, Conchita

Reference : Gender, Loneliness and Happiness during COVID-19


	Document type :	Scientific journals : Article
	Discipline(s) :	Business & economic sciences : Social economics
	To cite this reference:	http://hdl.handle.net/10993/52621

Title :	Gender, Loneliness and Happiness during COVID-19
Language :	English
Author, co-author :	Lepinteur, Anthony [University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences (FHSE) > Department of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences (DBCS) >]
	Clark, Andrew [Paris School of Economics – CNRS and University of Luxembourg]
	Ferrer-I-Carbonell, Ada [IAE-CSIC and Barcelona School of Economics]
	Piper, Alan [University of Leeds]
	Schröder, Carsten [DIW Berlin]
	d'Ambrosio, Conchita [University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences (FHSE) > Department of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences (DBCS) >]
Publication date :	2022
Journal title :	Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics
Publisher :	Elsevier
Volume :	101
Pages :	101952
Peer reviewed :	Yes
Audience :	International
ISSN :	2214-8043
e-ISSN :	2214-8051
Keywords :	[en] Loneliness ; Life Satisfaction ; Covid-19 ; SOEP
Abstract :	[en] 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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