The University of Luxembourg, LIS Datacenter and LISER invite you for a remote session of the monthly seminar on social inequality and public policies, which will be held ONLINE due to COVID-19.

This seminar aims to integrate the spread-out potential for research on social inequalities that exists in Luxembourg.

May 18  Wednesday, 15.30-17.00 [CET]

The following presentation is scheduled:
Robin Samuel and Roger Fernandez Urbano 
University of Luxembourg - Department of Social Sciences

Talk title: Subjective Well-Being and Mental Health Among the Youth During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Perceived Conditions and Social Background

Abstract: We investigate the relationship between perceptions of current conditions, subjective well-being, and mental health among the youth during the COVID-19 pandemic using panel data from Luxembourg. We examine how this relationship evolves across different social backgrounds. Luxembourg is an important setting because although being the country with the highest GDP per capita in the world and one of the happiest, it has one of the highest percentages of working poor in the EU (i.e. 11.9%), the majority of them between 18-24 years old. Results show that perceived conditions matter beyond objective conditions. We found a strong correlation between perceptions and subjective well-being for individuals from high social background, a weaker one for those with low social background, and a weak and insignificant one for those with middle social background. Furthermore, our results suggest that the relationship between perceptions and well-being is stable over time.