Economic reform and mortality in the former Soviet Union: A study of the suicide epidemic in the 1990s

Brainerd, Elizabeth L.

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“…As shown by Brainerd (2001), Cheng et al (2002) and Neumayer (2003), a negative correlation between suicide rate and economic performance is expected. However, a direct relationship is also found (see Preti and Miotto, 1999, for the Italian case).…”

Section: Empirical Model and Data Description 31 The Basic Modelmentioning

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Social conformity and suicide

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Sterzi

2013

The Journal of Socio-Economics

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C R E N O S w a s s e t u p i n 1 9 9 3 w i t h t h e p u r p o s e o f o r g a n i s i n g t h e j o i n t r e s e a r c h e f f o r t o f e c o n o m i s t s f r o m t h e t w o S a r d i n i a n u n i v e r s i t i e s ( C a g l i a r i a n d S a s s a r i ) i n v e s t i g a t i n g d u a l i s m a t t h e i n t e r n a t i o n a l a n d r e g i o n a l l e v e l . C R E N o S ' p r i m a r y a i m i s t o i m p r o v e k n o w l e d g e o n t h e e c o n o m i c g a p b e t w e e n a r e a s a n d t o p r o v i d e u s e f u l i n f o r m a t i o n f o r p o l i c y i n t e r v e n t i o n . P a r t i c u l a r a t t e n t i o n i s p a i d t o t h e r o l e o f i n s t i t u t i o n s , t e c h n o l o g i c a l p r o g r e s s a n d d i f f u s i o n o f i n n o v a t i o n i n t h e p r o c e s s o f c o n v e r g e n c e o r d i v e r g e n c e b e t w e e n e c o n o m i c a r e a s . T o c a r r y o u t i t s r e s e a r c h , C R E N o S c o l l a b o r a t e s w i t h r e s e a r c h c e n t r e s a n d u n i v e r s i t i e s a t b o t h n a t i o n a l a n d i n t e r n a t i o n a l l e v e l . T h e c e n t r e i s a l s o a c t i v e i n t h e f i e l d o f s c i e n t i f i c d i s s e m i n a t i o n , o r g a n i z i n g c o n f e r e n c e s a n d w o r k s h o p s a l o n g w i t h o t h e r a c t i v i t i e s s u c h a s s e m i n a r s a n d s u m m e r s c h o o l s . C R E N o S c r e a t e s a n d m a n a g e s s e v e r a l d a t a b a s e s o f v a r i o u s s o c i o -e c o n o m i c v a r i a b l e s o n I t a l y a n d S a r d i n i a . A t t h e l o c a l l e v e l , C R E N o S p r o m o t e s a n d p a r t i c i p a t e s t o p r o j e c t s i m p a c t i n g o n t h e m o s t r e l e v a n t i s s u e s i n t h e S a r d i n i a n e c o n o m y , s u c h a s t o u r i s m , e n v i r o n m e n t , t r a n s p o r t s a n d Abstract We study the relationship between suicide rates and socioeconomic factors by using a panel data at Italian province level in the time span 1996-2005. Our analysis focuses on the impact of social norms on suicidal behaviours. In particular, beyond the usual social correlates of suicide rates, we propose an aggregate measure of social conformity which refers to the religious sphere as an area of conflict between individual and social behaviours. GMM and dynamic spatial panel data approach are implemented to control for serial and spatial autocorrelation. The results confirm the primary role of family, alcohol consumption and population density in explaining the suicide rates in Italy, while the economic variables, namely income per capita and economic growth, do not appear to have any effects. IntroductionMore than one hundred years after his seminal work, Emile Durkheim still provides the starting point of any sociological study on suicide. According to Durkheim (1893;1897), the frequency of self-killing in society depends on two factors: social integration and regulation. As a result, four types of suicide can be distinguished: egoistic, anomic...

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Section: Empirical Model and Data Description 31 The Basic Modelmentioning

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Social conformity and suicide

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2013

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“…Comparative works on suicide have addressed Japan and Korea (Kim et al 2011). 3 Many analyses of suicide have been conducted since the 1970s (e.g., Hamermresh 1974; Yang and Lester 1995;Huang 1996;Viren 1996;Chuang and Huang 1997;Brainerd 2001;Jungeilges and Kirchgassner 2002;Marcotte 2003). 4 Even prior to the 1990s, economic factors such as unemployment rates have been significantly related to the suicide rate in Japan (Motohashi 1991).…”

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Comparison of Social Trust's effect on suicide ideation between urban and non-urban areas: The Case of Japanese Adults in 2006

Yamamura

2015

Social Science & Medicine

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Eiji Yamamura (Seinan Gakuin Un iversity) Terms of use: Documents inAbstract.An increasing number of studies have addressed the determinants of suicide.Social capital is a key factor in preventing suicide. However, little is known about the experience of suicide ideation using subjective values. From the viewpoint of suicide prevention, it is worth examining how people think of suicide. This paper attempts to examine the effect of social capital on suicide ideation. Furthermore, the paper compares the effect of social capital between urban and non-urban areas.In this paper, urban areas are equivalent to mega-cities with populations over one million. Non-urban areas are cities with populations of less than one million, towns and villages. Individual-level data from the Japanese General Social Surveys (JGSSs) are used. The survey, which was conducted in 2006, provides information about the subjective value of suicide ideation. The survey was answered by 1,413 subjects with a mean age of 54.5. Of the subjects, 49% were male. Social trust is used to measure the degree of social capital, and the outcome of interest is suicide ideation within the past 5 years. After controlling for various factors, the major findings are that both individual-level social trust and social trust accumulated in one's residential administrative district reduce the probability that one will consider suicide. After dividing the sample into urban and non-urban residents, particularized trust plays a role in deterring suicide ideation in urban areas, while generalized trust plays a role in deterring suicide ideation in non-urban areas. The effect of each type of trust depends on its scarcity in residential areas.

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“…However, mental health services and systems remain limited, and greater attention is also required on risk-factors for poor mental health such as social exclusion and widening socioeconomic inequalities (Bobak, et al, 2006;Brainerd, 2001;Jenkins, et al, 2005;Jenkins, et al, 2010;McDaid, et al, 2006;Roberts, et al, 2012;Tomov, et al, 2007).…”

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“…This has been linked to the social stress, uncertainty and impoverishment resulting from the collapse of communism, the growth in the production of illicit spirits and surrogate alcohols, and sharp declines in vodka prices during the deregulation of the alcohol industry (Moskalewicz & Simpura, 2000;Nemtsov, 2011;Stuckler, King, & McKee, 2009;Treisman, 2010). The evidence for high levels of stress is seen in the steep increases in male suicide rates and mental disorders that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union (Andreev, Pridemore, Shkolnikov, & Antonova, 2008;Brainerd, 2001;Leon & Shkolnikov, 1998;Pietila & Rytkonen, 2008;Plavinski, Plavinskaya, & Klimov, 2003;Tomkins, et al, 2012;UNICEF, 2001;WHO/Europe, 2013). Even now, post-Soviet societies continue to be characterised by many established risk-factors for poor mental health, such as impoverishment, social instability, isolation and low levels of social welfare, and generally poor quality mental health services (Jenkins, Klein, & Parker, 2005;McDaid, Samyshkin, Jenkins, Potasheva, Nikiforov, & Ali Atun, 2006;Roberts, Abbott, & McKee, 2012;Tomov, Van Voren, Keukens, & Puras, 2007;UNDP, 2011).…”

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Psychological Distress and Problem Drinking

2015

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We examine the influence of harmful alcohol use on mental health using a flexible two-step instrumental variables approach and household survey data from nine countries of the former Soviet Union. Using alcohol advertisements to instrument for alcohol, we show that problem drinking has a large detrimental effect on psychological distress, with problem drinkers exhibiting a 42% increase in the number of mental health problems reported and a 15% higher chance of reporting very poor mental health. Ignoring endogeneity leads to an underestimation of the damaging effect of excessive drinking. Findings suggest that more effective alcohol polices and treatment services in the former Soviet Union may have added benefits in terms of reducing poor mental health.

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Economic reform and mortality in the former Soviet Union: A study of the suicide epidemic in the 1990s

Cited by 161 publications

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Social conformity and suicide

Social conformity and suicide

Comparison of Social Trust's effect on suicide ideation between urban and non-urban areas: The Case of Japanese Adults in 2006

Psychological Distress and Problem Drinking

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