Life satisfaction changes and adaptation in the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from Singapore

• Main Authors: CHENG, Terence C., KIM, Seonghoon, KOH, Kanghyock
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2024
• Subjects: COVID-19; pandemic; life satisfaction; subjective well-being; individual-level monthly panel data; Asian Studies; Behavioral Economics; Public Health
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/2649; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soe_research/article/3648/viewcontent/cheng_et_al_2022_life_satisfaction_changes_and_adaptation_in_the_covid_19_pandemic_evidence_from_singapore.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

We provide novel evidence on how COVID-19 affected overall life satisfaction using a monthly longitudinal survey of middle-aged and older Singaporeans. We study how the subjective well-being of individuals evolves over the course of 18 months including the outbreak of the pandemic, the implementatio...