@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp16636,
            	author={Neugebauer, Martin and Patzina, Alexander and Dietrich, Hans and Sandner, Malte},
            	title={Two Pandemic Years Greatly Reduced Young People's Life Satisfaction: Evidence from a Comparison with  Pre-COVID-19 Panel Data},
            	year={2023},
	month={Nov},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={16636},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp16636},
	abstract={How much did young people suffer from the COVID-19 pandemic? A growing number of studies address this question, but they often lack a comparison group that was unaffected by the pandemic, and the observation window is usually short. Here, we compared the 2-year development of life satisfaction of German high school students during COVID-19 (N = 2,698) with the development in prepandemic cohorts (N = 4,834) with a difference-in-differences design. We found a decline in life satisfaction in winter 2020/2021 (Cohen's d = -0.40) that was approximately three times stronger than that in the general population and persisted until winter 2021/2022. Young people found some restrictions particularly burdensome, especially travel restrictions, bans on cultural events, and the closure of bars/clubs.},
	keywords={adolescents;pandemic;causal analysis;well-being;COVID-19;Germany},
            }