printThe Influence of the Population’s Lending on the Level of Suicide in the Russia Regions
Doroshenko S.V.
Dr. Sci. (Econ.), Associate Prof., Head of the Sector for Research on Adaptation of Regional Systems; Prof. of the Economics Department Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin, Institute of Economics of the Ural Branch of RAS, Ekaterinburg, Russia. doroshenkos@mail.ru
Sanaeva O.V.
Junior Researcher, Institute of Economics of the Ural Branch of RAS, Ekaterinburg, Russia. olg.sanaev@yandex.ru
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
Doroshenko S.V., Sanaeva O.V. The Influence of the Population’s Lending on the Level of Suicide in the Russia Regions. Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya [Sociological Studies]. 2023. No 1. P. 71-81
The study is devoted to the problem of assessing the relationship between financial and economic factors and the level of suicides in the Russian regions. We used panel data for 80 regions of Russia for the period 2005 (2010)–2020. We applied the Driscoll-Kraay standard error fixed effects method to solve cross-section dependence of data. The results showed that the volume of household debt on loans and the level of debt burden reduces the suicide rate in the regions. We found a U-shaped relationship between the overdue debt and the number of suicides in the general population, as well as in rural and urban populations. Consequently, the initial increase in overdue debt reduces the number of suicides, and its further increase leads to an increase in mortality. We also determined the extreme points of overdue debt for the entire population, as well as urban and rural. It has been established that the analyzed factors have a greater impact on the level of suicides among the rural population.