OSC Scientific Seminar 2021-2022

Friday 24th September 2021, 11:30 am / 1:00 pm (Zoom videoconference)

Subjective wellbeing in rural and urban areas under the Covid-19 crisis in France

Marta Pasqualini

Post-Doc Research Fellow, Sciences Po - OSC

The difference between urban and rural areas, in terms of standard of living, is still being debated. If, on one hand, cities offer higher job opportunities, leisure activities, and cultural events, they are also characterized by higher cost of living, higher levels of pollution, and greater wealth inequality.

The Covid-19 pandemic, imposing everyone to be locked down at home, might have increased the relevance of living spaces by (re)opening urban-rural differences in subjective wellbeing.

By using a probability-based panel study, consisting of 1,404 individuals, we explored changes in subjective well being (SWB) over time, from the pre-pandemic period (2019) to about one year of lockdown (April 2021).

In addition, we investigated between-individuals differences based on rural-urban differential factors (i.e., compositional factors) and within-individuals differences based on events that have been experienced during the pandemic period (i.e., contextual factors).

Registration is mandatory to join the Zoom meeting (the link will be sent one day before)