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OECD countries with low public social security spending. -- suicide ; happiness ; welfare ; health …This paper investigates how economic conditions are associated with age-sex group specific suicide rates in a panel of … income is negatively associated with suicide rates of men, while unemployment primarily affects suicide rates of women …
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This paper investigates how economic conditions are associated with age-sex group specific suicide rates in a panel of … income is negatively associated with suicide rates of men, while unemployment primarily affects suicide rates of women …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005731518
This paper investigates how economic conditions are associated with age-sex group specific suicide rates in a panel of … income is negatively associated with suicide rates of men, while unemployment primarily affects suicide rates of women …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014214881
The article’s subject is social protection in the Arab world. Giving the example of Egypt, it asks why poverty is so widespread and why – despite the country’s numerous sophisticated social protection systems – social risks are a major contributing factor to it. It concludes that reforms...
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While the first order effects of access to clean water and of personal hygiene and sanitation on health have been well … reciprocal externalities (Dasgupta, 1993), we present a simple model of health externalities of households' hygiene and … sanitation, showing how the choices of one household affects ill-health incidences of other households. Then using micro level …
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county, as well as improvements in self-reported mental and physical health. We further find that this reduction in suicide … is precisely what is predicted by the literature linking economic conditions to suicide risk …
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half decades (1990-2014). We considered three main pillars of welfare - health, income & consumption, education - and we … western european country - Germany -, as a banchmark for comparison. We conclude that Romania's welfare development …, determined using our indicators and methodology, appears to be consistent and robust. Considering the overall welfare development …
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-nationals who remained in Ukraine. Specifically, we identify the determinants of happiness, trust and self-declared health, and the …. Having suffered violence, however, has a lasting adverse impact on the happiness, trust and health of Ukrainians in Poland … economically and in terms of their general wellbeing (happiness). Having experienced violence does not seem to compel Ukrainians to …
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. Substantive findings include: the identification of a group with low all round capabilities associated with low health and low …
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This paper characterizes the link between ambient temperatures and a broad set of mental health outcomes. We find that … health. Specifically, cold temperatures reduce negative mental health outcomes while hot temperatures increase them. Our … conditioning penetration rates, accessibility of mental health services, and other factors. The character of the results suggests …
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