Gender, Loneliness and Happiness during COVID-19

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Bibliographic Details
Authors and Corporations:	Lepinteur, Anthony (Author), Clark, Andrew E. (Author), Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ferrer (Author), Piper, Alan T. (Author), Schröder, Carsten (Author), D'Ambrosio, Conchita (Author)
Other Authors:	Clark, Andrew E. 1963- [Author] • Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ferrer [Author] • Piper, Alan T. [Author] • Schröder, Carsten 1972- [Author] • D'Ambrosio, Conchita [Author]
Type of Resource:	E-Book
Language:	English
published:	Berlin, Germany German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), DIW Berlin 2022
Series:	Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung: SOEP papers on multidisciplinary panel data research ; 1178 (2022)
Contents/pieces:	2 records
Source:	Verbunddaten SWB Lizenzfreie Online-Ressourcen

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Summary:	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.