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group mean homicide rates. With U.S. state-level panel data for the period 1995 - 2006, this paper fails to find a … significant homicide-reducing effect of death penalty. …
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homicide and robbery rates in each of the states to the minimum level they observed during 1991-2011 period, the predicted … gain in growth rate by bringing down the homicide rate at a level of national minimum could be 0.62 percentage points. Note …
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The vulnerability of health sector to corruption lies in the complex interaction between the social environment and the institutional setting of health systems. We investigate this interaction in the case of Italy, speci�cally looking at the impact of corruption on health expenditure. In Italy...
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are negatively associated with the probability that those individuals will consider suicide many years after graduation. …
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suicide rate and some of the demographic and other economic variates. Further, we use ARDL model to find out the association … between suicide and some economic variables. We find that inflation, per capita real GDP and industrial growth encourages the …
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This study is the first attempt to empirically examine the determinants of suicides in the case of Turkey using the time-series data for the period 1974-2007. This research proposes that the suicides in Turkey are related to some economic and social factors and they exhibit a dynamic...
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This paper examines the factors affecting suicide in 13 European OECD countries from a socio-economic perspective. We … increasing impact of divorce rates and a decreasing effect of per capita real GDP on suicide are confirmed in 9 countries … rates, the results reveal that its increase leads to a decrease in suicide rates in four countries and a rise in suicide …
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This paper studies the effect of fruit and vegetable consumption on human well-being. Using individual-level panel data from a representative sample of Australian households, I estimate the intake of fruit and vegetables to have positive and statistically significant impacts on a wide range of...
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It is widely believed by development economists that the role of human capital is one of the most fundamental determinants of economic growth. Sustained growth depends on the level of human capital whose stocks increase due to better education, higher levels of health, new learning and training...
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The paper examines the heterogeneity with respect to the impact of a financial reform - Activity Based Financing (ABF) - on hospital efficiency in Norway. Measures of technical efficiency and of cost-efficiency are considered. The data set is from a contiguous ten-year panel of 47 hospitals...
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