Have girls been left behind during the COVID-19 pandemic? Gender differences in pandemic effects on children’s mental wellbeing

Using data from the UK, we show that girls have been affected more than boys by the COVID-19 pandemic in terms of their mental wellbeing. These gender differences are more pronounced in lower-income families. Our results are consistent with previous findings of larger pandemic effects on mental heal...

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Autores principales: Mendolia, Silvia, Suziedelyte, Agne, Zhu, Anna
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier B.V. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8944107/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35345669
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2022.110458
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spelling pubmed-89441072022-03-24 Have girls been left behind during the COVID-19 pandemic? Gender differences in pandemic effects on children’s mental wellbeing Mendolia, Silvia Suziedelyte, Agne Zhu, Anna Econ Lett Article Using data from the UK, we show that girls have been affected more than boys by the COVID-19 pandemic in terms of their mental wellbeing. These gender differences are more pronounced in lower-income families. Our results are consistent with previous findings of larger pandemic effects on mental health of women. Elsevier B.V. 2022-05 2022-03-24 /pmc/articles/PMC8944107/ /pubmed/35345669 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2022.110458 Text en © 2022 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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