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: Paris School of Economics

No 15715, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: We carry out a difference-in-differences analysis of a representative real-time survey conducted as part of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study and show that teleworking had a negative average effect on life satisfaction over the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic. This average effect hides considerable heterogeneity reflecting genderrole asymmetry: lower life satisfaction is only found for unmarried men and 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; work from home; gender; childcare; COVID-19; SOEP (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I31 M5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 30 pages
Date: 2022-11
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Published - published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2024, 37 (1), Article 8

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