Showing 1 - 10 of 11
We model the effect of Protestant vs. Catholic denomination in an economic theory of suicide, accounting for … circumvent selectivity bias. Protestantism had a substantial positive effect on suicide in 1816-21 and 1869-71. We address issues …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013123215
In an economic theory of suicide, we model social cohesion of the religious community and religious beliefs about … afterlife as two mechanisms by which Protestantism increases suicide propensity. We build a unique micro-regional dataset of 452 … suicide. We address issues of bias from mental illness, misreporting, weather conditions, within-county heterogeneity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013024485
We examine the economic and social determinants of suicide mortality in a panel of 25 OECD countries over the period … 1970-2011 and explicitly analyze the effects of unemployment and labor market institutions on suicide rates. In line with a … large body of literature our results suggest that unemployment increases suicide mortality, while real economic growth tends …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315586
In an economic theory of suicide, we model social cohesion of the religious community and religious beliefs about … afterlife as two mechanisms by which Protestantism increases suicide propensity. We build a unique micro-regional dataset of 452 … suicide. We address issues of bias from mental illness, misreporting, weather conditions, within-county heterogeneity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212081
Many experts claim that the incidence of suicide attacks is driven by religious cleavages. To test this hypothesis, we … investigate whether the total number of suicide attacks per violent conflict or the annual number of suicide attacks per country … the actual perpetrators and victims of suicide attacks. Our results do not indicate that religious cleavages are an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013028899
We examine the economic and social determinants of suicide mortality in a panel of 25 OECD countries over the period … 1970 – 2011 and explicitly analyze the effects of unemployment and labor market institutions on suicide rates. In line with … a large body of literature our results suggest that unemployment increases suicide mortality, while real economic growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010795344
We model the effect of Protestant vs. Catholic denomination in an economic theory of suicide, accounting for … circumvent selectivity bias. Protestantism had a substantial positive effect on suicide in 1816-21 and 1869-71. We address issues …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009147747
Recent research in international economics highlights the role of interdependencies of investment decisions and sales of multinational firms. Previous work focused on and provided evidence for aggregate flows or stocks of foreign direct investment, showing that interdependence declines in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005196195
Anglo-Saxon countries have been successful in the 1990s concerning labor market performance compared to the former role models Germany and Japan. This reversal in relative economic performance might be related to idiosyncracies in financial markets with bank-based financial markets as in Germany...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406087
In recent years, sustainability has represented one of the most important policy goals explored in the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) literature. But related hypotheses, performance measures and results continue to present a challenge. The present paper contributes to this ongoing literature...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010765493