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Mitigating Adverse Social and Health Impacts of COVID-19 with Applied Arts

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  • Martina Metzger
  • Hans Walter Steinhauer
  • Jennifer Pédussel Wu

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In this project, we analyze whether the arts can mitigate negative impacts of social distancing and isolation on mental health and wellbeing, ease the burden of closed day-care and school facilities on families, and preserve attitudes of solidarity and trust. Using the SOEP-CoV questionnaire, we examine whether experience with music enabled individuals and households to handle social isolation and distancing rules and requirements better than their peers without this artistic experience. Research has shown that persistent shocks on income have a significant impact on happiness and hence on social and health well-being, thus, we explore the importance of music in this context. Using discrete choice econometric estimation techniques, this paper finds that music does indeed mitigate the negative impact of prolonged social distancing proxied for by life satisfaction. In addition, musical practice leads to feelings of less social isolation during this period.

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  • Martina Metzger & Hans Walter Steinhauer & Jennifer Pédussel Wu, 2024. "Mitigating Adverse Social and Health Impacts of COVID-19 with Applied Arts," SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research 1211, DIW Berlin, The German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP).
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    1. Ruta Clair & Maya Gordon & Matthew Kroon & Carolyn Reilly, 2021. "The effects of social isolation on well-being and life satisfaction during pandemic," Palgrave Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 8(1), pages 1-6, December.
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    Keywords

    Covid-19 Pandemic; Music; Happiness; Isolation Panel;
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    JEL classification:

    • Z11 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Economics of the Arts and Literature
    • I00 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - General - - - General
    • D1 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior
    • C23 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Models with Panel Data; Spatio-temporal Models

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