offers a comparative overview of the incidence and determinants of loneliness and social isolation in Europe in the pre …-COVID-19 period. The empirical results indicate that 8.6% of the adult population in Europe suffer from frequent loneliness and …Concerns about loneliness and social isolation are growing more than ever. With the COVID-19 pandemic entering its …

risks from loneliness, social isolation, and living alone, remain controversial. Further research is therefore important … independently strongly associated with all-cause mortality. We estimate a hazard ratio for loneliness of 1.41, which is greater for … income. Overall, our findings suggest that interventions should focus on reducing both loneliness and social isolation, as …

We analyse a measure of loneliness from a representative sample of German individuals interviewed in both 2017 and at … 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 …

We analyse a measure of loneliness from a representative sample of German individuals interviewed in both 2017 and at … 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 …

-run tendency towards an increase in the prevalence of poverty, both in the South and in the North of Europe. This trend was only …

paper investigates the causal link between physical isolation and loneliness. We exploit variations in the number of … significantly affect loneliness. Further, we use triple differences to examine heterogeneous effects. For income, age, personality … household characteristics on loneliness. Whereas many believe that 'being alone' and 'being lonely' are similar concepts, our …