Analysis of the impact of financial and labour uncertainty on suicide mortality in England.
Health Place
; 89: 103329, 2024 Sep.
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| ID: mdl-39146888
ABSTRACT
This paper examines the relationship between different dimensions of economic uncertainty and suicide rates in England from 1985 to 2020, both in the short and long term. The study employs a non-linear autoregressive distributed lag framework for cointegration estimation. This approach allows testing for the existence of possible asymmetries in the response of suicide mortality to increases in economic uncertainty. Uncertainty is gauged by different proxies that allow computing financial uncertainty and labour market uncertainty indicators. The analysis is replicated by gender and across regions, controlling for unemployment and economic growth. Overall, the analysis suggests that uncertainty intensified during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. This is in line with the stylized facts of economic uncertainty and its pronounced role in recessions. When replicating the experiment by gender, we find that women seem to be more sensitive to changes in uncertainty. Regarding the existence of asymmetries, we found that decreases in economic uncertainty have a greater impact on suicide mortality than increases.
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Coleções:
01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Suicídio
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COVID-19
Limite:
Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
País/Região como assunto:
Europa
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Health Place
Assunto da revista:
EPIDEMIOLOGIA
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SAUDE PUBLICA
Ano de publicação:
2024
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Article