TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Neugebauer, Martin
AU  - Patzina, Alexander
AU  - Dietrich, Hans
AU  - Sandner, Malte
        TI  - Two Pandemic Years Greatly Reduced Young People's Life Satisfaction: Evidence from a Comparison with  Pre-COVID-19 Panel Data
        PY  - 2023/Nov/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 16636
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp16636
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - adolescents
KW  - pandemic
KW  - causal analysis
KW  - well-being
KW  - COVID-19
KW  - Germany
        ER  -