2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A study about inequalities in suicide risk
| Project/Area Number |
16K13359
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Economic policy
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| Research Institution | Otaru University of Commerce (2017)
National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (2016) |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2016-04-01 – 2018-03-31
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| Keywords | 自殺 / 市区町村データ / 不平等 / ジニ係数 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
I appended (1) Gini indices of revenues, savings and debts estimated from their binned data at the municipal level, (2) real assets, (3) average land prices per square meters, and (4) single-, divorce- and widowed rates of males/females and of working-ages/retirement-ages, to the municipal-level regional panel data of suicide rates linked to socio-economic and demographic variables measured in each of five 5-year periods over 1988-2012. My analysies of this extended database and a municipal-level dynamic panel regression analyses based on this database, I have found several features of suicide risk in Japan over this sample period: (a) real-estate variables react to the business cycle immediately, (b) debt-based Gini index has little comovements with the other indices and its cycles are not coincident with the business cycle, and (c) this debt-based Gini index suggests a strong positive link with suicide risk of males, whereas the other Gini indices suggest little impact on it.
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| Free Research Field |
ファイナンス、計量経済学
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