Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/267452 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 15715
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
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.
Subjects: 
life satisfaction
teleworking
work from home
gender
childcare
COVID-19
SOEP
JEL: 
I31
M5
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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