120932 20241125101125.0 doi 10.1007/s10902-022-00574-7 sideral 131179 ART-2023-131179 eng Giménez-Nadal, José Ignacio Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0002-1610-5451 Should We Cheer Together? Gender Differences in Instantaneous Well-being: An Application to COVID-19 Lockdowns 2023 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted The COVID-19 pandemic has confined millions in their homes, an unprecedented opportunity to spend more time together with family members. This paper explores subjective well-being in the uses of time for US and UK workers, differentiating between solo activities and activities done with family members, at home and outside the home. Using American and British time use surveys, we compute the instant utility associated with paid work, unpaid work, leisure, and childcare activities. OLS regressions on both men and women show that workers prefer joint leisure to solo leisure, and that significant differences exist for solo and joint market work and housework, between the sexes. Despite that, the effect magnitudes are relatively low. Furthermore, we simulate a strict lockdown situation by replacing where and with whom worker episodes would be, based on mid-2020 strict confinements. Results suggest diverging effects, since more time with the spouse/partner and children, and less time with others, seems to increase the experienced wellbeing of women, compared to that of men. The simulation exercise also reveals asymmetric effects in the US and in the UK. The conclusions of this paper may help in assessing the psychological consequences of COVID-19 lockdowns, beyond the negative economic and labour market consequences. info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MICINN/PID2019-108348RA-I00 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ 3.1 2023 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY 42 / 219 = 0.192 2023 Q1 T1 SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY 18 / 267 = 0.067 2023 Q1 T1 1.48 2023 Social Sciences (miscellaneous) 2023 Q1 8.6 2023 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Molina, José Alberto Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0002-9437-4606 Velilla, Jorge Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0002-0553-6360 4000 415 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Análisis Económico Área Fund. Análisis Económico 24, 2 (2023), 529–562 JOURNAL OF HAPPINESS STUDIES JOURNAL OF HAPPINESS STUDIES 1389-4978 2743747 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/120932/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 1152382 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/120932/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:120932 articulos driver 2024-11-22-11:57:23 ARTICLE