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Gender inequality in COVID-19 times : evidence from UK prolific participants

Oreffice, Sonia; Quintana-Domeque, Climent - 2020 - Revised version: 12December2020

We investigate gender differences across multiple dimensions after three months of the first UK lockdown of March 2020, using an online sample of approximately 1,500 Prolific respondents residents in the UK. We find that women's mental health was worse than men's along the four metrics we...

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Social cohesion and labor mobility

Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2018

come and work. Migrants are more accepted if they are many. The wellbeing of natives is higher with more migrants present. …

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Does retirement lead to life satisfaction? : causal evidence from fixed effect instrumental variable models

Ha Trong Nguyen; Mitrou, Francis; Taylor, Catherine L.; … - 2020

community activities. Furthermore, while the positive wellbeing impact of retirement is sizable initially, it fades after the …-income individuals. However, the wellbeing impact of retirement does not differ by gender, educational, occupational, economic or marital … the endogeneity of retirement would result in a downward-biased estimate of a positive wellbeing impact of retirement. …

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Delving into the eye of the cyclone to quantify the cascading impacts of natural disasters on life satisfaction

Ha Trong Nguyen; Mitrou, Francis - 2024

The catastrophic effects of natural disasters on social and economic systems are well-documented; however, their impacts on individual life satisfaction remain insufficiently understood. This study pioneers a causal analysis of cyclones' impacts on Australians' life satisfaction, using local...

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Citizens' opinions of and experiences with government responses to COVID-19 pandemic in Viet Nam

Huyen Thanh Do; Cuong Viet Nguyen; Long Thanh Nguyen; … - 2022

This study explores the impact of COVID-19 and how Vietnamese citizens perceived and experienced measures adopted by central and local governments to contain the CVODI-19 pandemic in 2021. In general, the COVID-19 pandemic had a more severe impact in 2021 than in 2020. Citizens showed great...

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Mental health consequences of working from home during the pandemic

Kim, Jun Hyung; Koh, Yu Kyung; Park, Jinseong - 2022

This paper examines the effects of working from home on mental health, with particular attention to the role of home environments. Using unique real time survey data from South Korea collected during the COVID-19 pandemic, we find that working from home negatively affects the mental health of...

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Mental health consequences of working from home during the pandemic

Kim, Jun Hyung; Koh, Yu Kyung; Park, Jinseong - 2021

This paper examines the effects of working from home on mental health, using unique real time survey data from South Korea collected during the COVID-19 pandemic. We find that working from home negatively affects the mental health of workers in the first half of 2020. Furthermore, we find...

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The effect of repeated lockdowns during the Covid-19 pandemic on UK mental health outcomes

Lindley, Joanne; Rienzo, Cinzia - 2021

This paper assesses the impact of the Covid-19 lockdown measures on the mental health of individuals in the UK, starting from the early restrictions in April 2020, and covering three subsequent lockdowns, up until March 2021. It also considers three aspects of mental health; that is 'anxiety and...

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Social rejection, family acceptance, economic recession and physical and mental health of sexual minorities

Drydakis, Nick - 2021

positively impact sexual/gender identity minorities' progression, self-esteem, income, and well-being. Public health services …

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Leveraging technology to promote women's health : evidence from a pilot program

Ahmad, Hamna; Hussain, Sadia; Nazif, Muhammad Ahmed - 2021

We investigate the causal impact of offering telehealth services to female microfinance borrowers on their health and bargaining power in the household. Using a balanced panel of 1218 female borrowers, we observe a positive impact of offering telehealth services on self-reported physical and...

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