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anything, the estimates based on gender breakdown show that there is evidence that an increase in income inequality is …
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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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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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This paper examines the factors affecting suicide in 13 European OECD countries from a socio-economic perspective. We … increasing impact of divorce rates and a decreasing effect of per capita real GDP on suicide are confirmed in 9 countries … rates, the results reveal that its increase leads to a decrease in suicide rates in four countries and a rise in suicide …
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The allocation of resources within households may not be equal, and this may lead to different outcomes including health outcomes for household members. This paper investigates whether child nutrition inequalities are attributable to differences between households or differences within...
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The evidence of higher income inequality leading to increased HIV prevalence through channels of coercion and migration … relationship. Initially from income inequality to HIV prevalence; then from HIV prevalence to reduced human capital formation and … subsequently generating human capital inequality via reduced investment in human capital of affected households and back to income …
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case, interesting interpretations would be arriving on the possible interactions among anthropometry and inequality which …
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The positive relationship between household income and child health is well documented in the child health literature but the precise mechanisms via which income generates better health and whether the income gradient is increasing in child age are not well understood. This paper presents new...
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This paper studies the effect of fruit and vegetable consumption on human well-being. Using individual-level panel data from a representative sample of Australian households, I estimate the intake of fruit and vegetables to have positive and statistically significant impacts on a wide range of...
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