What Does It Drive the Relationship Between Suicides and Economic Conditions? New Evidence from Spain

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• 作者：Carla Blázquez-Fernández ; David Cantarero-Prieto…
• 关键词：Suicide ; Material deprivation ; Count panel data ; Economic conditions
• 刊名：Social Indicators Research
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：130
• 期：3
• 页码：1087-1099
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• 刊物类别：Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
• 刊物主题：Sociology, general; Quality of Life Research; Microeconomics; Public Health; Human Geography; Quality of Life Research;
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-0921
• 卷排序：130

文摘

In this paper we analyse suicides across the 17 Spanish regions over the period 2002–2013. In doing so, we estimate count panel data models considering gender differences taking into account before and during economic crisis periods. A range of aggregate socioeconomic regional-level factors have been considered. Our empirical results show that: (1) a socioeconomic urban–rural suicide differentials exist, (2) there exists a Mediterranean suicide pattern; and (3) unemployment levels have a marked importance during the crisis period. The results of this study may have usefulness for suicide prevention in Spain.