The effect of public spending on suicide: Evidence from U.S. state data

Minoiu, Camelia; Andrés, Antonio R.

doi:10.1016/j.socec.2006.09.001

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“…Divorce can cause perceived shame, stress and ultimately result in risky behaviour such as suicide. Therefore, higher divorce rates are likely to be related with higher suicide rates (see, for instance Minoiu and Andres, 2008;Neumayer, 2003, among others). In a similar vein, fertility rates can also be viewed as an indicator of social integration, and thus high fertility rates would be associated with lower suicide mortality, supporting a negative relationship between social integration and suicides.…”

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The impact of fiscal austerity on suicide: On the empirics of a modern Greek tragedy

Antonakakis

Collins

2014

Social Science & Medicine

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The impact of fiscal austerity on suicide: On the empirics of a modern Greek tragedy

Antonakakis

Collins

2014

Social Science & Medicine

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“…The empirical evidence for the effect of income on suicide is mixed, however. Though some empirical studies indicate that suicide rates have a positive association with income [17][18][19], there are many others suggesting the opposite effect [2,[20][21][22][23][24][25][26]. Others have reported an insignificant effect of income on suicide [27], [28].…”

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“…The empirical findings are fairly mixed. Much of the empirical literature reports a positive relationship, associating higher unemployment with higher suicide rates [21], [27], [23], [24], [30], [20], [29], [25]. Furthermore, the impact of unemployment might also differ across gender.…”

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Determinants of suicides in Denmark: Evidence from time series data

Andrés

Halıcıoğlu

2010

Health Policy

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This research examines empirically the determinants of suicides in Denmark over the period . To our knowledge, there exist no previous study that estimates a dynamic econometric model of suicides on the basis of time series data and cointegration framework at disaggregate level. Our results indicate that suicide is associated with a range of socioeconomic factors but the strength of the association can differ by gender. In particular, we find that a rise in real per capita income and fertility rate decreases suicides for males and females. Divorce is positively associated with suicides and this effect seems to be stronger for men. A fall in unemployment rates seems to lower significantly suicides in males and females. Policy implications of suicides are discussed with some appropriate recommendations.

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“…In terms of social factors, to analyze suicide, previous works consider the extent to which suicide is accounted for by social capital (e.g., Putnam 2000;Yamamura 2010; Smith and Kawachi 2014), 1 the sex ratio (Kuroki 2014), the fertility rate (Okada and Samreth 2013), divorce, and marriage (e.g., Kunce and Anderson 2002;Neumayer 2003;Andrés et al 2011). In contrast, many works consider economic factors, such as public spending (Minoiu and Andrés 2008), inequality (Andrés 2005), and unemployment (e.g., Platt 1984;Yang et al 1992;Yang and Lester 1995;Breuer 2015).…”

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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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The effect of public spending on suicide: Evidence from U.S. state data

Cited by 79 publications

References 41 publications

The impact of fiscal austerity on suicide: On the empirics of a modern Greek tragedy

The impact of fiscal austerity on suicide: On the empirics of a modern Greek tragedy

Determinants of suicides in Denmark: Evidence from time series data

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

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