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 …

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 …

Studies have found that loneliness is as bad as smoking or obesity for mortality risk, and the prevalence of loneliness … the substantial literature on loneliness, there is little detailed research on the extent of economic gradients. In this … differences in loneliness across educational attainment, household income and neighbourhood deprivation, as well as recent major …