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This study of the impact of economic freedom on per capita real GDP among OECD nations over the 2003-2006 period, with each OECD nation during this time frame being treated as a de facto “economic region” within the OECD, finds strong initial support for the hypothesis proffered here that...
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are negatively associated with the probability that those individuals will consider suicide many years after graduation. …
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This study is the first attempt to empirically examine the determinants of suicides in the case of Turkey using the time-series data for the period 1974-2007. This research proposes that the suicides in Turkey are related to some economic and social factors and they exhibit a dynamic...
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The question to what extent corruption influences suicide remains still unanswered. This paper examines the effect of … corruption on suicide using a panel data approach for 24 OECD countries over the period 1995-2004. Our results show that suicide …
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’s (1951) seminal work in the field of sociology is that suicide is under influences of not only individual traits but also of … the society one belongs to.  Recently it was found that the effect of socio-economic variables on suicide rates depends on … gender. This paper attempts to examine the difference of socio-economic factors on suicide between males and females. I used …
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Suicide is a major cause of preventable death. Restricting access to lethal means has been identified as an effective … approach to suicide prevention, and firearms regulations are one way to reduce gun availability. This study examines the … relationship between state firearms regulations and suicide among males, using negative binomial regression and state panel data …
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suicide rate and some of the demographic and other economic variates. Further, we use ARDL model to find out the association … between suicide and some economic variables. We find that inflation, per capita real GDP and industrial growth encourages the …
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The question to what extent corruption influences suicide remains still unanswered. This paper examines the effect of … corruption on suicide using a panel data approach for 24 OECD countries over the period 1995-1999. Our results indicate suicide …
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cointegration framework at disaggregate level. Our results indicate that suicide is associated with a range of socio …
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Panel data regressions for 24 OECD countries showed that the less corrupt a society is, the lower the total suicide …
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