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Background: In this paper we investigate the causal relationship between suicide and a variety of socioeconomic … of suicide in Canadian provinces vary across total, male, and female counts (natural logarithms) and rates. We also find … necessary for a better understanding of the factors that impact suicide (consistent with previous research) and that the choice …
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consequences of joint custody laws for families in such areas as family formation, labor force participation, suicide, domestic …
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‐scraped data from a newspaper archive and use suicide mentions per 100,000 pages to proxy for suicides. Overall, results show that … mined gold is linked with an apparent reduction in newspaper suicide mentions in line with previous research. …
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determined suicide rates in the past. This is likely due to the lack of consistent data prior to the 20th century. In this … article, I propose using newspaper suicide mentions for the period 1840–1910 as a proxy measure for suicide and perform … several validation exercises. I show that the stylized facts like suicides drop during wars holds for suicide mentions. I also …
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determined by her reproductive type and the amount of resources she can access. We introduce the possibility of suicide and … that populations where suicide is possible grow faster than other populations. …
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The formation of "Urban Networks" has become a wide-spread phenomenon around the world. In the study of metropolitan regions, there are competing or diverging views about management and control of environmental and land-use factors as well as about scales and arrangements of settlements....
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I study how the economic value of a heterogeneously distributed environmental public good depends on how the endowment with this good and income are distributed. I find that the effect of environmental inequality on the societal willingness to pay (WTP) for the environmental good is determined...
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In this paper we analyze the role played by Market access to explain income disparities among Japanese Prefectures for different periods of time. The results of the estimations suggest that 1) Market access plays an important role in the explanation of income disparities in Japan, 2) the effect...
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