Political institutions and suicide : a regional analysis of Switzerland

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2008
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Fischer, Justina
Rodriguez-Andres, Antonio
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Research paper series / Thurgauer Wirtschaftsinstitut; 33
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The question to what extent governance structure affects people s well-being, here reflected in the decision to commit suicide, remains still largely unknown. This paper examines the effects of political institutions and governance structure on suicide using a balanced panel for 26 Swiss states (cantons) over the period 1980 1998. Our results indicate that stronger popular rights and more fiscal decentralization reduce suicide, while more local autonomy increases it. The effects are not strongly gender-specific. However, we find evidence that the effect of direct legislation is partly transmitted through sub-federal budgets, but not through health sector spending exclusively.
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Political institutions,suicide,regional analysis Switzerland
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ISO 690FISCHER, Justina, Antonio RODRIGUEZ-ANDRES, 2008. Political institutions and suicide : a regional analysis of Switzerland
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