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題名: | How is suicide different in Japan? | 作者: | Chen,Joe ;Choi,Yun Jeong ; Sawada,Yasuyuki | 貢獻者: | 政大財政系 | 關鍵詞: | Suicide in Japan;Panel study;Socioeconomic factors | 日期: | Mar-2009 | 上傳時間: | 26-Aug-2013 | 摘要: | This study investigates suicide rates among OECD countries, with particular effort made to gain insight into how suicide in Japan is different from suicides in other OECD countries. Several findings emerged from fixed-effect panel regressions with country-specific time-trends. First, the impacts of socioeconomic variables vary across different gender–age groups. Second, in general, better economic conditions such as high levels of income and higher economic growth were found to reduce the suicide rate, while income inequality increases the suicide rate. Third, the suicide rate is more sensitive to economic factors captured by real GDP per capita, growth rate of real GDP per capita, and the Gini index than to social factors represented by divorce rate, birth rate, female labor force participation rate, and alcohol consumption. Fourth, female and elderly suicides are more difficult to be accounted for. Finally, in accordance with general beliefs, Japan`s suicide problem is very different from those of other OECD countries. The impact of the socioeconomic variables on suicide is greater in Japan than in other OECD countries. | 關聯: | Japan and the World Economy, 21(2), 140-150 | 資料類型: | article |
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