The gender gap in mental well-being during the Covid-19 outbreak: evidence from the UK

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A literature review of the economics of COVID‐19 (2020, methodology): “Using panel data in the United Kingdom, Etheridge and Spantig (2020) report a large deterioration in the state of mental health, with much larger effects for women.”
The mental health effects of the first two months of lockdown and social distancing during the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK (2020, background): “7 The raw gender effects in terms of changes between wave 9 and the Covid module are also documented in Etheridge and Spantig (2020), who argue social factors (friends and loneliness) and, to some extent, changes in family and caring responsibilities, can account for these differences.”
Gender inequality in COVID-19 times: evidence from UK prolific participants (2020, methodology): “Using the same data, Etheridge and Spantig (2020) document similar gender differences and Daly et al. (2020) find higher increases in mental health problems (GHQ-12≥ 3) for women.”