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While there is some evidence that men are doing more of this work, women spent far more time – 50% more - on house work and childcare.

Time spent doing housework, childcare and home schooling and additional caring work all predicted negative change in Subjective Well-Being.

Women report that their Subjective Well-Being has been more negatively affected than men.

Research also shows that women - and in particular BAME women – have been negatively affected in terms of anxiety and that younger people and women are most negatively affected in terms of their mental health. The findings add to other research which has found that the economic impacts have been felt most by low paid families and lone parents and that women have been most negatively affected by redundancies and school closures.

We explored changes in self-reported Subjective Well-Being in the this representative (once weighted) survey data. Subjective Well-Being in the Lockdown?ĭuring April – at the height of the lockdown – the Understanding Society population were surveyed on the financial, well-being, time use and educational impacts of the lockdown. Like many other countries, the government also used measures to support the economy – including a ‘furlough’ scheme which has been extensively taken up by employers with more than 8.7m jobs furloughed at an expected total cost of around £60bn. In an attempt to stem the spread of the virus the Government initiated an evolving lockdown process from 16th March which involved the closure of schools, bars and restaurants and the public being ordered to ‘stay at home’ in order to protect health care capacity and ‘save lives’. The economic effects of lockdown are expected to be equally sizeable, with the OECD projecting that it will be one of the worst effected economies. Recorded deaths with a firm connection to the virus had exceeded 45,000 by the end of May and when wider deaths are taken into account, the toll is much higher still. The UK has been particularly hard hit by the Coronavirus pandemic. Policies to contain and mitigate the Pandemic The analysis is based on the recent first release of monthly data produced from a large-scale nationally representative survey: Understanding Society.

Given important commonalities in experiences and policy responses in the pandemic, the lessons that emerge from this are likely to be relevant to many countries.

Our recent research has explored different impacts of lockdown on Subjective Well-Being in the UK. Learning the lessons of lockdown is essential so that policies can attenuate negative effects in the event that further general or targeted lockdowns are necessary or in the context of future pandemics. We know a great deal about the unequal health effects of the virus, but it is important also to understand how the measures to tackle the virus may themselves have had unequal and/or unintended consequences. Many countries around the world instigated a lockdown in the midst of the spread of the Novel Coronavirus Covid 19 during March and April 2020. Alex Nunn and Marc Cowling explore the effects of lockdown on Subjective Well-Being in the UK and draw policy lessons applicable to many countries.