Teleworking and Life Satisfaction during COVID-19: The Importance of Family Structure

Senik, Claudia; Clark, Andrew; D'AMBROSIO, Conchita; LEPINTEUR, Anthony; SCHRÖDER, Carsten

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Teleworking and Life Satisfaction during COVID-19: The Importance of Family Structure

Senik, Claudia; Clark, Andrew; D'AMBROSIO, Conchita et al.

2024 • In Journal of Population Economics, 37, p. 8

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Life Satisfaction, Teleworking, Working from Home, Gender, Childcare, COVID-19, SOEP

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[en] We carry out a difference-in-differences analysis of a real-time survey conducted as part of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) survey and show that teleworking had a negative average effect on life satisfaction over the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic. This average effect hides considerable heterogeneity, reflecting gender-role asymmetries: lower life satisfaction is only found for unmarried men, and women with school-age children. The negative effect for women with school-age children disappears in 2021, suggesting adaptation to new constraints and/or the adoption of coping strategies.

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Special economic topics (health, labor, transportation...)

Author, co-author :

Senik, Claudia; Sorbonne University and Paris School of Economics

Clark, Andrew; Paris School of Economics - CNRS

D'AMBROSIO, Conchita ; University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences (FHSE) > Department of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences (DBCS) > Health and Behaviour

LEPINTEUR, Anthony ; University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences (FHSE) > Department of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences (DBCS) > Health and Behaviour

SCHRÖDER, Carsten; DIW Berlin

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English

Title :

Teleworking and Life Satisfaction during COVID-19: The Importance of Family Structure

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2024

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Journal of Population Economics

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0933-1433

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1432-1475

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Springer, Germany

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