Does working from home lead to loneliness? If yes, how and for whom? Using a quasi-natural experiment and individual fixedeffects, this study shows that work from home leads to increased worker loneliness. Teleworking not only increases overall loneliness, but it also affects each of the three...

For socially disadvantaged people, public mobility services are a basic prerequisite for social participation. In local politics and public transport planning, issues of mobility-related social disadvantage and the socio-spatial differentiation of participation opportunities have to date...

This paper evaluates the impact of Kenya's 2010 constitutional reform, which established 47 semi-autonomous counties and implemented a nationwide decentralization framework with redistributive fiscal transfers favoring 14 historically marginalized regions through a revenue-sharing formula and...

Loneliness poses a serious health risk: Along with negatively impacting life quality, it can even shorten the life span. This Weekly Report investigates loneliness in Germany using Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data from 2021 on loneliness. The analyses highlight the prevalence of three facets of...