The Impact of Social Expenditure on Sustainable Human Development: Empirical Evidence on the Suicide Deaths in a Developing Country
Omega (United States), cilt.93, sa.4, ss.2585-2609, 2026 (SSCI, Scopus)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 93 Sayı: 4
- Basım Tarihi: 2026
- Doi Numarası: 10.1177/00302228241287816
- Dergi Adı: Omega (United States)
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, ASSIA, IBZ Online, Periodicals Index Online, Abstracts in Social Gerontology, AgeLine, ATLA Religion Database, CINAHL, EBSCO Education Source, Education Abstracts, MLA - Modern Language Association Database, Psycinfo, Social services abstracts, Sociological abstracts, Violence & Abuse Abstracts
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.2585-2609
- Anahtar Kelimeler: autoregressive distributed lag method, human development, social expenditure, suicide, Turkiye
- Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
Suicide has been a serious international public mental health problem and is one of the top twenty leading causes of death worldwide. This study aims to investigate the impact of social expenditure on suicide deaths in Turkiye as a developing country from 1982 to 2019. The Bounds Testing Approach to Cointegration and Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) methods were used. The results indicated that social expenditure has a statistically significant and negative effect on total suicide and female suicide deaths, but it has a statistically insignificant and negative impact on male suicide death. The contribution of this study is to examine for the first time whether social expenditure has an impact on total, female, and male suicide mortality in Turkiye. Policymakers should regard increasing social spending in the government budget to prevent suicide deaths in Turkiye.