@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp15653,
            	author={Lepinteur, Anthony and Clark, Andrew E. and Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada and Piper, Alan and Schröder, Carsten and D'Ambrosio, Conchita},
            	title={Gender, Loneliness and Happiness during COVID-19},
            	year={2022},
	month={Oct},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={15653},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp15653},
	abstract={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 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 changed only little between 2017 and 2020; yet that of women fell dramatically, and sufficiently so to produce a female penalty in life satisfaction. We estimate that almost all of this female penalty is explained by the disproportionate rise in loneliness for women during the COVID-19 pandemic.},
	keywords={COVID-19;loneliness;life satisfaction;gender;SOEP},
            }