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Who is Left Behind? Altruism of Giving, Happiness and Mental Health during the Covid-19 Period in the UK
Applied Research in Quality of Life ( IF 3.447 ) Pub Date : 2020-12-17 , DOI: 10.1007/s11482-020-09900-8
Eleftherios Giovanis 1, 2 , Oznur Ozdamar 3
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The UK government has decided to implement lockdown measures at the end of March 2020 as a response to the outbreak and spread of the Covid-19 pandemic. As a consequence, households have experienced job losses and a significant drop in their finances. During these unprecedented and difficult times, people provide financial assistance to those who are in need and have to cope with falls in their living standards. In this study we are interested to investigate the subjective well-being, which is expressed by mental health and components of general happiness, of the givers rather than of receivers. We apply a difference-in-differences framework to investigate the impact of altruism on the givers’ SWB in the UK. Altruism is denoted by transfers made to adult children, parents, siblings, and friends. Using the DiD estimator and the estimated coefficient of the household income we calculate the implicit willingness-to-pay (WTP) for altruism. We perform various regressions by gender and racial-ethnic background using data from the UK Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS). The analysis shows that altruistic behaviours impact different domains of SWB between men and women, as well as, among people with different racial-ethnic background.



中文翻译:

谁被抛在后面?英国 Covid-19 时期给予、幸福和心理健康的利他主义

英国政府已决定在 2020 年 3 月末实施封锁措施,以应对 Covid-19 大流行的爆发和蔓延。结果,家庭经历了失业和财务状况的显着下降。在这前所未有的困难时期,人们为有需要但不得不应对生活水平下降的人提供经济援助。在这项研究中,我们有兴趣调查主观幸福感,它通过心理健康和一般幸福的组成部分来表达,是给予者而不是接受者。我们应用差异中的差异框架来调查利他主义对英国捐赠者 SWB 的影响。利他主义表现为对成年子女、父母、兄弟姐妹和朋友的转移。使用 DiD 估计量和家庭收入的估计系数,我们计算了利他主义的隐含支付意愿(WTP)。我们使用来自英国家庭纵向研究 (UKHLS) 的数据按性别和种族背景进行各种回归。分析表明,利他行为会影响男性和女性之间以及具有不同种族背景的人之间不同的 SWB 领域。

更新日期:2021-01-13
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