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| Title |
The impact of fiscal austerity on suicide: On the empirics of a modern Greek tragedy
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| Published in |
Social Science & Medicine, April 2014
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| DOI | 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.04.019 |
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| Authors |
Nikolaos Antonakakis, Alan Collins |
| Abstract |
Suicide rates in Greece (and other European countries) have been on a remarkable upward trend following the global recession of 2008 and the European sovereign debt crisis of 2009. However, recent investigations of the impact on Greek suicide rates from the 2008 financial crisis have restricted themselves to simple descriptive or correlation analyses. Controlling for various socio-economic effects, this study presents a statistically robust model to explain the influence on realised suicidality of the application of fiscal austerity measures and variations in macroeconomic performance over the period 1968-2011. The responsiveness of suicide to levels of fiscal austerity is established as a means of providing policy guidance on the extent of suicide behaviour associated with different fiscal austerity measures. The results suggest (i) significant age and gender specificity in these effects on suicide rates and that (ii) remittances have suicide-reducing effects on the youth and female population. These empirical regularities potentially offer some guidance on the demographic targeting of suicide prevention measures and the case for 'economic' migration. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 62 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 10 | 16% |
| Spain | 4 | 6% |
| Canada | 3 | 5% |
| United States | 3 | 5% |
| Italy | 3 | 5% |
| Brazil | 2 | 3% |
| Australia | 2 | 3% |
| Kenya | 1 | 2% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 2% |
| Other | 5 | 8% |
| Unknown | 28 | 45% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 49 | 79% |
| Scientists | 6 | 10% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 4 | 6% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 3 | 5% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 140 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Greece | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 138 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 26 | 19% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 21 | 15% |
| Student > Master | 21 | 15% |
| Other | 8 | 6% |
| Student > Bachelor | 8 | 6% |
| Other | 28 | 20% |
| Unknown | 28 | 20% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences | 30 | 21% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 22 | 16% |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 20 | 14% |
| Psychology | 13 | 9% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 5 | 4% |
| Other | 15 | 11% |
| Unknown | 35 | 25% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 85. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 12 October 2021.
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#507,455
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Outputs from Social Science & Medicine
#439
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#4,307
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Outputs of similar age from Social Science & Medicine
#5
of 120 outputs
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