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Social Restrictions and Well-Being: Disentangling the Mechanisms
Foliano, Francesca; Tonei, Valentina; Sevilla, Almudena - 2022
Using a nationally representative 24-hour diary survey covering the first two years of the pandemic, we explore the mechanisms underlying the changes in wellbeing for men and women. We exploit the variation in the stringency of social restrictions implemented by the UK government during this...
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The COVID-19 Pandemic and Mental Health: Disentangling Crucial Channels
Siflinger, Bettina M.; Paffenholz, Michaela; Seitz, … - 2021
loneliness are all associated with worsening mental health. Both the initial drop and subsequent recovery are larger for parents …
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Loneliness and Social Isolation: An Unequally Shared Burden in Europe
d'Hombres, Beatrice; Barjaková, Martina; Schnepf, Sylke V. - 2021
Concerns about loneliness and social isolation are growing more than ever. With the COVID-19 pandemic entering its … second year, there are fears that the toll on loneliness could have consequences long after the virus recedes. This study … offers a comparative overview of the incidence and determinants of loneliness and social isolation in Europe in the pre …
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Exploring the Relationship between Care Homes and Excess Deaths in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from Italy
Alacevich, Caterina; Cavalli, Nicolò; Giuntella, Osea; … - 2020
We explore the relationship between the spatial distributions of excess deaths and care home facilities during the COVID-19 outbreak in Italy. Using registry-based mortality data (January 1st- March 31st, 2015-2020) for Lombardy, one of the areas hit most severely, we estimate that...
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Pandemic Depression: COVID-19 and the Mental Health of the Self-Employed
Caliendo, Marco; Graeber, Daniel; Kritikos, Alexander S.; … - 2022
representative longitudinal survey data from Germany, we reveal differential effects by gender: whereas self-employed women …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351799
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Teleworking and Life Satisfaction during COVID-19: The Importance of Family Structure
Senik, Claudia; Clark, Andrew E.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita; … - 2022
We carry out a difference-in-differences analysis of a representative real-time survey conducted as part of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study and show that teleworking had a negative average effect on life satisfaction over the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic. This average...
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Who Got the Brexit Blues? Using a Quasi-Experiment to Show the Effect of Brexit on Subjective Wellbeing in the UK
Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Plagnol, Anke C.; Frijters, Paul; … - 2017
We use the 2015-2016 waves of the UK Household Longitudinal Study (Understanding Society) to look at subjective wellbeing around the time of the June 2016 EU membership Referendum in the UK (Brexit). We find that those reporting a preference for leaving the EU were 0.14 points less satisfied...
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A Year of Pandemic: Levels, Changes and Validity of Well-Being Data from Twitter. Evidence from Ten Countries
Sarracino, Francesco; Greyling, Talita; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2021
institutions, fear concerning the economy, loneliness, infection rate, policy stringency and distancing. To assess the validity of …
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Analyzing Regional Variation in Health Care Utilization Using (Rich) Household Microdata
Eibich, Peter; Ziebarth, Nicolas - 2013
This paper exploits rich SOEP microdata to analyze state-level variation in health care utilization in Germany. Unlike most studies in the field of the Small Area Variation (SAV) literature, our approach allows us to net out a large array of individual-level and state-level factors that may...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319573
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Analyzing Regional Variation in Health Care Utilization Using (Rich) Household Microdata
Eibich, Peter; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper exploits rich SOEP microdata to analyze state-level variation in health care utilization in Germany. Unlike most studies in the field of the Small Area Variation (SAV) literature, our approach allows us to net out a large array of individual-level and state-level factors that may...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011123400