masterThesis
Análise econométrico-espacial do suicídio no Brasil
Fecha
2020-01-08Registro en:
ARAÚJO, Rafael de Sousa. Análise econométrico-espacial do suicídio no Brasil. 2020. 62f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Economia) - Centro de Ciências Sociais Aplicadas, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, 2020.
Autor
Araújo, Rafael de Sousa
Resumen
The present study aims to analyze the suicide rates recorded in Brazilian
municipalities in the years 2000 and 2010, associating this phenomenon with
economic, meteorological and social variables. The analysis starts from the idea
defended by Durkheim (2000), who sees suicide as a social problem, and not an
individual one. For this, we used data from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and
Statistics (IBGE), the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the Department
of Informatics of SUS (DATA-SUS) and the meteorological information base of the
University of Delaware. We used a balanced spatial panel with the first difference, as
well as other tools of spatial econometrics, considering the minimum distance matrix,
which takes into account that each municipality has at least one neighbor. Based on
specification tests, we verified that the most appropriate spatial model would be the
spatial lag (SAR), showing that the dependent variable (suicide rate) is partially
determined by the values of the same variable in neighboring municipalities. Among
the main results, it was found that there is a relative overflow effect of suicide among
Brazilian municipalities. In addition, it can be seen that the variables aging rate,
unemployment rate and average temperature have a positive relationship with the
suicide rate; on the other hand, the proportion of people without a defined religion,
the proportion of divorces and the volume of rainfall have a negative relationship with
the variable of interest.