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Article Dans Une Revue Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics Année : 2022

Gender, loneliness and happiness during COVID-19

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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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halshs-03956344 , version 1 (25-01-2023)

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Anthony Lepinteur, Andrew E. Clark, Ada Ferrer-I-Carbonell, Alan Piper, Carsten Schröder, et al.. Gender, loneliness and happiness during COVID-19. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2022, 101, ⟨10.1016/j.socec.2022.101952⟩. ⟨halshs-03956344⟩
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