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The psychological gains from COVID-19 vaccination: who benefits the most?

Bagues, Manuel F.; Dimitrova, Velichka - 2021

We quantify the impact of COVID-19 vaccination on psychological well-being using information from a large-scale panel survey representative of the UK population. Exploiting exogenous variation in the timing of vaccinations, we find that vaccination increases psychological well-being by 0.12...

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Promoting the diffusion of technology to boost productivity and well-being in Korea

Pak, Mathilde - 2020

Korea is a top player in emerging digital technologies, with an outstanding digital infrastructure and a dynamic ICT sector. The COVID-19 outbreak highlighted the importance of digitalisation to contain the spread of the virus, by allowing quick testing and tracing of infected people, and...

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Lost happiness : loss of life satisfaction in the Corona Crisis

Ahlheim, Michael; Bruckmeyer, Stefan; Konrad, Kai A.; … - In: Wirtschaftsdienst : Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik 100 (2020) 8, pp. 586-590

This study illustrates the loss of life satisfaction, and with it the psychological costs of the COVID-19 pandemic and … illustrates that many solo self-employed and women report a significant decline in life satisfaction, and that these effects are …

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When to release the lockdown? : a wellbeing framework for analysing costs and benefits

Layard, Peter R. G.; Clark, Andrew E.; De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel - 2020

It is politicians who have to decide when to release the lockdown, and in what way. In doing so, they have to balance many considerations (as with any decision). Often the different considerations appear incommensurable so that only the roughest of judgements can be made. For example, in the...

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Neo-humanism and COVID-19 : opportunities for a socially and environmentally sustainable world

Sarracino, Francesco; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2021 - Version: 20 April 2021

A series of crises, culminating with COVID-19, shows that going "Beyond GDP" is urgently necessary. Social and environmental degradation are consequences of emphasizing GDP as a measure of progress. This degradation created the conditions for the COVID-19 pandemic and limited the efficacy of...

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Care-arrangements and parental well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany

Zoch, Gundula; Bächmann, Ann-Christin; Vicari, Basha - 2020

This study examines the short-term consequences for care-arrangements and resulting changes in well-being among parents, who were affected by the closure of schools and institutional child-care during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. By applying multinomial logistic regression models to novel...

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The impacts of working from home on individual health and well-being

Denzer, Manuel; Grunau, Philipp - In: The European journal of health economics 25 (2024) 5, pp. 743-762

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Well-being throughout the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany : gendered effects of daycare and school closures

Huebener, Mathias; Waights, Sevrin; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2024

. We also show that the size of the gender gap in life satisfaction fluctuates over time in a way that is related to …

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Worker well-being before and during the COVID-19 restrictions : a longitudinal study in the UK

Pelly, Diane; Doyle, Orla; Daly, Michael; Delaney, Liam - 2021

. However, these improvements come at the expense of reduced homelife satisfaction and job performance. …

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Gender, Loneliness and Happiness during COVID-19

Lepinteur, Anthony; Piper, Alan; Clark, Andrew; … - 2022

loneliness was far larger for women. This rise is mirrored in life-satisfaction scores, which historically are often found to be … higher for women. Men’s life satisfaction in 2017 and 2020 changed only little; yet that of women fell dramatically, and … sufficiently so to invert the gender gap in life satisfaction. We estimate that almost all of this inversion is explained by the …

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