New insights on suicide: uncertainty and political conditions

Measuring Economic Policy Uncertainty Using an Unsupervised Word Embedding-based Method

“…Our findings confirm the reported results of Antonakakis and Gupta [51], Vandoros et al [52], and de Bruin et al [53], considering the positive correlation between suicide cases and EPU indices. Furthermore, the correlation between the proposed index is higher than the other indices.…”

“…To answer this question, we conduct an experiment to investigate the properness of the indices with respect to their ability to follow the social responses to different levels of uncertainty in Iran. Antonakakis and Gupta [51], Vandoros et al [52], and de Bruin et al [53] studied the association between uncertainty and suicide cases in the US, England, and 17 other countries, respectively. These studies showed that the uncertainty value and the number of suicide cases are positively correlated.…”

Modelling The Dynamic Interaction Between Economic Uncertainty, Growth, Unemployment And Suicide

“…Therefore, the obtained results show that overall, indicators of economic uncertainty can provide an early signal for the advanced detection of periods of higher suicidal risk. These findings are in line with recent evidence obtained for the US by Antonakakis and Gupta (2017) and Vandoros and Kawachi (2021), and for 17 countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) by de Bruin et al (2020). Likewise, Claveria (2022) recently found that that economic uncertainty shocks have a more immediate reflection in suicide rates in Europe and Central Asia, while in the rest of the regions the bulk of the impact of a global uncertainty shock does not occur until a year after.…”

“…In this section, the relationship between economic uncertainty and suicide rates worldwide is examined by means of a dynamic panel model. While there exists empirical evidence that uncertainty shocks are an important exogenous source of economic fluctuations (Ahiadorme, 2022;Basile and Girardi, 2018;Caldara et al, 2016;Istiak and Serletis, 2018;Yıldırım-Karaman, 2017), there are only a few recent studies that have analysed the link between economic uncertainty and suicide (Antonakakis and Gupta, 2017;Claveria, 2022;de Bruin et al, 2020;Vandoros et al, 2019;Vandoros and Kawachi, 2021).…”

“…To the best of our knowledge, hitherto there are only five previous studies that analyse the relationship between economic uncertainty and suicide rates (Antonakakis and Gupta, 2017;Claveria, 2022;de Bruin et al, 2020;Vandoros et al, 2019;Vandoros and Kawachi, 2021). Antonakakis and Gupta (2017) examined the relationship between policy-related economic uncertainty and suicide mortality in the United States (US) over the period 1950-2013.…”