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Does the COVID-19 pandemic cause people to be unhappy? : evidence from a six-country survey

Cuong Viet Nguyen - 2021

Does the COVID-19 pandemic cause people unhappy? In this study, we use a recent survey from China, Japan, South Korea, Italy, the United Kingdom and the United States to explore this question. We find a relatively large effect: a one per-mille point increase in the incidence of the COVID-19...

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Weather affects mobility but not mental well-being during lockdown

Burdett, Ashley; Etheridge, Ben; Spantig, Lisa - 2020

Mental well-being has declined during the Covid-19 pandemic in several developed countries, and particularly in the UK. Given the resurgence of the disease in western Europe during autumn 2020 and concurrently increasing restrictions, we investigate the possible effect on well-being of a winter...

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On the Determinants of Happiness

Eyunni, Aravind - 2012

In the most rational sense, the pursuit of happiness is the end goal of all our actions. Utility, a word used … extensively by economists, can be understood as a synonym for life satisfaction or happiness. Industrial societies and … the other determinants of happiness. I find that although income is a substantial contributor to well being, qualities …

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Gender, loneliness and happiness during COVID-19

Lepinteur, Anthony; Clark, Andrew E.; … - 2022

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...

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Gender, loneliness and happiness during COVID-19

Lepinteur, Anthony; Clark, Andrew E.; … - 2022

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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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Isolation and well-being in the time of lockdown

Bourdeau-Lepage, Lise; Kotosz, Balázs - In: Region : the journal of ERSA 8 (2021) 2, pp. 83-97

In response to the Covid 19 health crisis, the French government has imposed various measures, referred to as social-distancing measures, including a lockdown with the primary objective of reducing face-to-face interactions between people in order to limit the spread of the virus. This paper...

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The gender gap in mental well-being during the Covid-19 outbreak : evidence from the UK

Etheridge, Ben; Spantig, Lisa - 2020

We document a decline in mental well-being after the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK. This decline is twice as large for women as for men. We seek to explain this gender gap by exploring gender differences in: family and caring responsibilities; financial and work situation; social...

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A tale of three countries : how did Covid-19 lockdown impact happiness?

Greyling, Talita; Rossouw, Stephanie; Adhikari, Tamanna - 2020

well-being. Using a pooled dataset, this paper analyses the causal effect of mandatory lockdown on happiness in three very …, notwithstanding the characteristics of a country or the lockdown regulations, whether a lockdown negatively affects happiness …. Secondly, we compare the effect size of the lockdown on happiness between these countries. We make use of Difference …

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Happiness-lost : did governments make the rightdecisions to combat Covid-19?

Greyling, Talita; Rossouw, Stephanie; Adhikari, Tamanna - 2020

lockdown regulations, while amid an economic crisis. We analyse the impact of both Covid-19 and the lockdown on happiness. We … use the Gross National Happiness Index to compare the determinants of happiness before and after the Covid-19 lockdown … regulations. Further, we estimate the likelihood of happiness levels in 2020, reaching the average levels in 2019 using two models …

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