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ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF SUICIDE PREVENTION - YASUY...

This book examines the causes and consequences of suicide from the perspective of economics.
The approach here differs from those in medical  psychiatric  epidemiological  and sociological
studies of suicide and is thus novel in a way that highlights the importance of economic and
institutional settings in the problem of suicide. The authors argue that suicide imposes a
tremendous economic cost on contemporary society in a variety of ways  requiring the government
to develop an effective prevention strategy. An empirical analysis using data from Japan and
other developed countries shows that natural disasters and economic crises increase suicide
rates  while liberal government policies favorable to the poor can decrease them. Further  the
types of effective prevention strategies in the context of railway subway suicides  celebrity
suicides  public awareness campaigns  and education using data primarily from Japan are
revealed. This book ultimately contributes to an understandingof suicides and the development
of evidence-based policy proposals. The Japanese version of this book won the 56th Nikkei Prize
for Economics Books (Nikkei Keizai Tosho Bunka Award) in 2013. Yasuyuki Sawada is Chief
Economist of the Asian Development Bank and Professor of Economics at The University of Tokyo.
Michiko Ueda is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Political Science and Economics at Waseda
University. Tetsuya Matsubayashi is Associate Professor of Osaka School of International Public
Policy (OSIPP) at Osaka University.

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