scholarly journals The Impact of Socioeconomic Factors on State Suicide Rates: Revisited

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Mitch Kunce
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Factors ◽  
State Level ◽  
Empirical Method ◽  
Jel Classification ◽  
Ecological Fallacy ◽  
Social Forces ◽  
Suicide Rates ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Varia Tions

Abstract This paper revisits the purported impact of socioeconomic and social environment factors on annual, U.S. state-level suicide rates. Special attention is paid to the right-hand-side linking covariates directly to Durkheim's (1897/1951) significant contributions to established ecological suicide research. Results from a Haus-man-Taylor panel specification lend little support to Durkheim's social integra-tion/regulation hypothesis that aggregate social forces matter in explaining varia-tions in regional suicide rates. Data from 1990-2019 and the advanced empirical method support the mounting sentiment of an abiding ecological fallacy plaguing suicidology. JEL classification numbers: C51, R11, I31. Keywords: Hausman-Taylor, Suicide rates, Socioeconomic factors.

The Impact of Socioeconomic Factors on State Suicide Rates: A Methodological Note

Urban Studies ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 155-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mitch Kunce ◽  
April L. Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Factors ◽  
Suicide Rates ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals A State-Level Socioeconomic Data Collection of the United States for COVID-19 Research

Data ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 118
Author(s):  
Dexuan Sha ◽  
Anusha Srirenganathan Malarvizhi ◽  
Qian Liu ◽  
Yifei Tian ◽  
You Zhou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Socioeconomic Factors ◽  
State Level ◽  
The United States ◽  
Dynamic Factor ◽  
Time Frequency ◽  
Socioeconomic Determinant ◽  
Socioeconomic Data ◽  
The Impact

The outbreak of COVID-19 from late 2019 not only threatens the health and lives of humankind but impacts public policies, economic activities, and human behavior patterns significantly. To understand the impact and better prepare for future outbreaks, socioeconomic factors play significant roles in (1) determinant analysis with health care, environmental exposure and health behavior; (2) human mobility analyses driven by policies; (3) economic pressure and recovery analyses for decision making; and (4) short to long term social impact analysis for equity, justice and diversity. To support these analyses for rapid impact responses, state level socioeconomic factors for the United States of America (USA) are collected and integrated into topic-based indicators, including (1) the daily quantitative policy stringency index; (2) dynamic economic indices with multiple time frequency of GDP, international trade, personal income, employment, the housing market, and others; (3) the socioeconomic determinant baseline of the demographic, housing financial situation and medical resources. This paper introduces the measurements and metadata of relevant socioeconomic data collection, along with the sharing platform, data warehouse framework and quality control strategies. Different from existing COVID-19 related data products, this collection recognized the geospatial and dynamic factor as essential dimensions of epidemiologic research and scaled down the spatial resolution of socioeconomic data collection from country level to state level of the USA with a standard data format and high quality.

scholarly journals Association of socioeconomic and environmental factors with the spatio-temporal variability of suicide rates along a latitudinal gradient

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergio A. Estay ◽  
Manuel Ruiz-Aravena ◽  
Tomas Baader ◽  
Marcelo Gotelli ◽  
Cristobal Heskia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Factors ◽  
Temporal Variability ◽  
Latitudinal Gradient ◽  
Negative Binomial ◽  
Adult Women ◽  
Age Classes ◽  
Suicide Rates ◽  
Marijuana Consumption ◽  
Spatio Temporal ◽  
The Impact

Aims: Suicide results from complex interactions between biological, psychological, and socioeconomic factors. At the population level, the study of suicide rates and their environmental and social determinants allows us to disentangle some of these complexities and provides support for policy design and preventive actions. In this study we aim to evaluate the associations between environmental and socioeconomic factors and demographically stratified suicide rates on large temporal and spatial scales. Methods: The dataset contains information about yearly suicides rates by sex and age from 2000 through 2017 along a 4,000 km latitudinal gradient. We used zero-inflated negative binomial models to evaluate the spatio-temporal influence of each environmental and socioeconomic variable on suicide rates at each sex/age combination. Results: Overall, we found differential patterns of associations between suicide rates and explanatory variables by age and sex. Suicide rates in men increases in middle and high latitude regions and intermediate age classes. For adolescent and adult women, we found a similar pattern with an increase in suicide rates at middle and high latitudes. Sex differences measured by the male/female suicide rate ratio shows a marked increase with age. We found that cloudiness has a positive effect on suicide rates in both men and women 24 years old or younger. Regional poverty shows a major impact on men in age classes above 35 years old, an effect that was absent in women. Alcohol and marijuana consumption showed no significant effect sizes. Conclusions: Our findings support high spatio-temporal variability in suicide rates in interaction with extrinsic factors. Several strong differential impacts of environmental and socioeconomic variables on suicide rates depending on sex and age were detected. These results suggest that the design of public policies and interventions to mitigate the impact of the studied variables need to consider the local social and environmental contexts of target populations.

scholarly journals The Measure of Financial Stability and its Impact on Foreign Direct Investment: Evidence from BRIC Nations

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 80-93
Author(s):  
Anjala Kalsie ◽  
Jyoti Dhamija ◽  
Ashima Arora
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Financial Stability ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Jel Classification ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Regression Framework ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Stability ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Impact

The stability of the economy has explicitly become a key objective for fiscal, economic, and monetary policy. It is a broader term described by different aspects of finance and the financial system. One variable cannot be recognized for defining and achieving stability. The purpose of this paper is two-fold, one to construct four measures of financial stability (MFS). The second purpose is to use the four constructed measures of financial stability in two stage least square (TSLS) regression framework to know the impact of MFA on Foreign Direct Investment (inwards) of BRIC for a period from 2000-2017. In case of Brazil, all the four measures of financial stability are significant. In case of Russia, government finances are not appropriately managed. In case of China, the large inflow of FDI is because of government policies as rest of the measures are negative. In case of India, the government measures are not efficient to attract the FDI.The openness of the economy is positively contributing to FDI in all countries except India. Of all the four nations Brazil is on the right path. JEL Classification Codes: F4, F6, H11, E60.  

scholarly journals FINANCING OF HOUSING THROUGH REAL ESTATE FUNDS: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LEGAL, TAX AND ACCOUNTING ASPECTS

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (38) ◽  
pp. 68-77
Author(s):  
O. Karyy ◽  
О. Grytsay ◽  
P. Sorokovyi ◽  
T. Khomuliak
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Capital Investment ◽  
Jel Classification ◽  
Housing Construction ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Real Estate ◽  
Housing Cooperatives ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Impact ◽  
To Receive

Abstract. The article examines the processes of housing construction financing through the mechanism of creating funds for real estate transactions from the standpoint of legal and scientific-theoretical justification. The interrelation of legal, tax, and accounting aspects in the process of housing financing through real estate funds and the impact of the issuance of property certificates as equity instruments on the activities of managers of real estate funds are determined. In the context of providing the housing with financial resources, the dynamics of the index of capital investment in housing construction and the commissioned area of residential real estate as indicators of housing development are analyzed in recent years in Ukraine. It is determined that the current Ukrainian legislation provides five mechanisms of financing of housing construction: construction financing funds, housing cooperatives, real estate funds, mutual investment institutions, issuance of interest-free (target) bonds. However, not all of them are widely used. In the course of the research, it was established that real estate funds are created for the owners of certificates of this fund to receive income from real estate transactions. Certificates of the real estate fund, which the manager issues when creating such a fund, are securities that certify the right of its owner to receive income from investing in real estate transactions and are in their economic essence equity securities.      Emphasis is placed on the accounting aspect of such financing as the main source of financial information for managing the activities of the real estate fund. To improve the accounting and analytical support for the management of such a fund, the correspondence of accounts is proposed to reflect the typical business transactions related to the management of the property of the real estate fund. Based on a critical analysis of the current domestic legislation, the tax consequences of the processes of housing construction financing through the mechanism of creating funds for real estate transactions are substantiated. Keywords: financing, housing construction, real estate fund, objects of accounting, taxation. JEL Classification G23, H25, L74, M41, R21 Formulas: 0; fig.: 2; tabl.: 1; bibl.: 22.

Bobbio, i diritti umani e la dottrina internazionalista italiana

2009 ◽  
pp. 485-502
Author(s):  
Francesco Salerno
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
International Relations ◽  
International Law ◽  
State Level ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Legal Studies ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Legal Thinking ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Impact

- Two elements must be taken into account in order to assess Bobbio's influence on Italian legal thinking regarding human rights and their protection at the international level: on one side, Bobbio's polyedric attitude towards legal studies; on the other side, the difficulty experienced by the Italian doctrine of international law in moving away from traditional positivist and statalist paradigms. The "dialogue" between Bobbio and international legal thinking probably reached its peak in the middle of the 20th Century, when some international law scholars, referring inter alia to Bobbio's reflection on custom as a source of law, developed the idea of "spontaneous law" in connection with international customary rules. Yet, this "contact" had only a limited impact on the law of human rights, probably due to the fact that, for a long time, Italian scholars have generally followed a very cautious approach over the possibility of ascertaining the existence of universal rules for the protection of such rights. Besides, the Italian doctrine of international law, in line with its formalistic and statalist foundations, paid in general little attention to the "promotional" function of international law in the area of human rights, despite Bobbio's attempts to draw the attention to its potentials, especially after the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights(1948). Italian scholars, assuming that international relations and international law should be looked at from the standpoint of the "constitutional sovereignty" of the State, have also been generally unwilling to study the impact of international rules over issues of constitutional law and to assess whether international law requires States to adopt an institutional and legal framework compatible with the "right to democracy". Instead, Bobbio's attention to federalism has proved to be more easy to share among international law scholars, especially in connection with international organizations acquiring a supra-national dimension: the need of assuring respect of human rights within such organizations, just like at State level, has been constantly remarked by Italian authors.

scholarly journals A Rights-based Approach to Indigenous Sovereignty, Self-determination and Self-government in Canada

SURG Journal ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn Reinders
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
State Level ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Indigenous Sovereignty ◽  
United Nations Declaration ◽  
The Right ◽  
Human Rights Based Approach ◽  
The Impact

The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People (UNDRIP) calls for the right to self-determination, as self-determination is a prerequisite for Indigenous people to recongnize their political, social, economic, and collective human rights. Canada has historically been unsupportive of UNDRIP as the federal government considers UNDRIP at odds with Canadian sovereignty and existing Canadian institutions. While the right to self-government is currently protected under section 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982, it is defined narrowly and falls short of allowing meaningful self-government for the majority of Indigenous people.  This paper considers the conflicting nature of self-determination and self-government through considering the impact of Indigenous sovereignty on state sovereignity, an analysis of various approaches to self-government in Canada, and the feasability of adopting a rights-based approach to self-government. This paper concludes that utilizing a human rights-based approach to self-government addresses the perceived conflicts at the state-level while providing for the creation of meaningful self-government arrangements.  Self-government arrangements must be created by Indigenous communities for Indigenous communities in order to reflect the diverse needs of Indigenous people regardless of their territorial affiliation or formal Indian status.   

285: The Impact of Socioeconomic Factors on Prostate Cancer Outcomes in a Large Series of African-American Patients

2007 ◽  
Vol 177 (4S) ◽  
pp. 95-95
Author(s):  
Atreya Dash ◽  
Peng Lee ◽  
Qin Zhou ◽  
Aaron D. Berger ◽  
Jerome Jean-Gilles ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Prostate Cancer ◽  
African American ◽  
Socioeconomic Factors ◽  
Large Series ◽  
Cancer Outcomes ◽  
The Impact

Emotional Reactivity to Visual Content as Revealed by ERP Component Clustering

2015 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 135-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miroslaw Wyczesany ◽  
Szczepan J. Grzybowski ◽  
Jan Kaiser
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Reactivity ◽  
Brain Activity ◽  
Affective State ◽  
Occipital Lobe ◽  
Stimulus Onset ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Neural Basis ◽  
Temporoparietal Junction ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Impact

Abstract. In the study, the neural basis of emotional reactivity was investigated. Reactivity was operationalized as the impact of emotional pictures on the self-reported ongoing affective state. It was used to divide the subjects into high- and low-responders groups. Independent sources of brain activity were identified, localized with the DIPFIT method, and clustered across subjects to analyse the visual evoked potentials to affective pictures. Four of the identified clusters revealed effects of reactivity. The earliest two started about 120 ms from the stimulus onset and were located in the occipital lobe and the right temporoparietal junction. Another two with a latency of 200 ms were found in the orbitofrontal and the right dorsolateral cortices. Additionally, differences in pre-stimulus alpha level over the visual cortex were observed between the groups. The attentional modulation of perceptual processes is proposed as an early source of emotional reactivity, which forms an automatic mechanism of affective control. The role of top-down processes in affective appraisal and, finally, the experience of ongoing emotional states is also discussed.

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