| In the section | Articles |
| Title of the article | The Impact of Debt Burden on the Number of Suicides in the Russian Regions |
| Pages | 97-117 |
| Author 1 |
Svetlana Viktorovna Doroshenko Doctor of Economics, Associate Professor, Head of the Sector for Research on Adaptation of Regional Systems Institute of Economics of the Ural Branch of RAS 29 Moskovskaya St., Ekaterinburg, 620014, Russian Federation Professor of the Economics Department Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin 19 Mira St., 620002, Ekaterinburg, Russian Federation This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ORCID: 0000–0002–8282–6062 |
| Author 2 |
Olga Vladimirovna Sanaeva Master Student, Trainee at the Department of Economics Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin 19 Mira St., 620002, Ekaterinburg, Russian Federation This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ORCID: 0000-0002-9826-9547 |
| Abstract | Population size is one of the most important parameters of national social and economic systems. This parameter is controlled by a variety of factors (components) that form ambiguous and complex feedback circuits. The most important issue is the study of the behavioral reactions of the population, which form certain parameters of the dynamics of the population. The authors consider only one behavioral reaction that seems to them to be important – the propensity for suicide, which ultimately leads to the formation of the suicide dynamics and which entails serious socio-economic and demographic losses. We put an emphasis on assessing the impact of financial parameters, namely households’ debt burden, on the suicide rates in the Russian regions. An econometric assessment of the influence of individual debt on the number of suicides among other socio-economic factors (unemployment rate, logarithm of GRP per capita, divorce rate, number of patients with mental disorders, average actual working week, number of alcoholics) was carried out for the regions among rural, urban populations and total. We use panel data for 80 Russian regions covering the period from 2005 to 2018. We apply the generalized method of moments (GMM) using Stata 14 statistical package. The empirical analysis demonstrates negative impact of the amount of individual debt on the number of suicides in the regions of Russia, which contradicts the results of similar studies conducted for developed economies. At the same time, some results obtained earlier in domestic and foreign studies have been confirmed, including an existence of a parabolic (U-shaped) dependence between the length of working hours and the suicide rates in the regions of the Russian Federation. In addition, there is a direct connection between an increase in the committed suicides and an increase in divorce rates and the number of patients with mental disorders. Moreover, we find out that the rise in unemployment rate and alcohol consumption leads to an increase in the number of committed suicides. This effect is especially perceptible among the people living in rural areas |
| Code | 314.424.2 |
| JEL | J11, G02, R10 |
| DOI | https://dx.doi.org/10.14530/se.2021.4.097-117 |
| Keywords | number of suicides ♦ factors ♦ debt burden on households ♦ amount of individual debt ♦ regions of Russia |
| Download | SE.2021.4.097-117.Doroshenko.pdf |
| For citation | Doroshenko S.V., Sanaeva O.V. The Impact of Debt Burden on the Number of Suicides in the Russian Regions. Prostranstvennaya Ekonomika = Spatial Economics, 2021, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 97–117. https://dx.doi.org/10.14530/se.2021.4.097-117 (In Russian) |
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| Financing | The research is carried out within the framework of the research plan of the Institute of Economics of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences for 2021–2023. ‘Institutional models and factors of social and economic adaptation of the population of the region in the transition to dynamic development’ |
| Submitted | 08.10.2021 |
| Approved after reviewing | 23.11.2021 |
| Accepted for publication | 26.11.2021 |
| Available online | 24.12.2021 |