Teleworking and life satisfaction during COVID-19: the importance of family structure

Claudia Senik (), Andrew Clark, Conchita D’Ambrosio (), Anthony Lepinteur and Carsten Schröder
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Claudia Senik: Sorbonne University, Paris School of Economics, and Institut Universitaire de France
Conchita D’Ambrosio: University of Luxembourg

Journal of Population Economics, 2024, vol. 37, issue 1, No 8, 24 pages

Abstract: Abstract We carry out a difference-in-differences analysis of a real-time survey conducted as part of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) survey and show that teleworking had a negative average effect on life satisfaction over the first 2 years of the COVID-19 pandemic. This average effect hides considerable heterogeneity, reflecting gender-role asymmetries: lower life satisfaction is found only for unmarried men and for women with school-age children. The negative effect for women with school-age children disappears in 2021, suggesting adaptation to new constraints and/or the adoption of coping strategies.

Keywords: Life satisfaction; Teleworking; Working from home; Gender; Childcare; COVID-19; SOEP (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I31 M5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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