IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/hrs/journl/vxiiy2020i1p203-220.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Is There A Long Run Nexus Among Mental Disorder And Socio-Economic Indicators? : Experiences From An Econometric Study Across 40 Countries

Author

Listed:
  • Ramesh CHANDRA DAS

    (Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Vidyasagar University, Midnapur 721102, West Bengal, India)

  • Sovik MUKHERJEE

    (Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, St. Xavier's University, Kolkata, India)

Abstract

Are there evidences of an association between poor mental health and the experience of poverty and socio-economic deprivation? To explore it, we try to relate all sorts of mental disorders with the per-capita GDP (PCGDP), the level of per-capita CO2 emissions as a measure of pollution (PCCO), usage of Internet (IU) as a measure of social behaviour, and Globalization Index (GI), for all the major countries in the world. Applying Vector Autoregression (VAR) model the results reveal that most of the high income countries in the selection have produced the result that mental disorder is cointegrated to the four socio economic indicators. The short run causality tests unambiguously backs up the sustainability of the long run cointegration relations derived for countries like Argentina, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, and UAE. Hence, mental disorder is not a problem to the lower income countries but to the high income countries as well.

Suggested Citation

  • Ramesh CHANDRA DAS & Sovik MUKHERJEE, 2020. "Is There A Long Run Nexus Among Mental Disorder And Socio-Economic Indicators? : Experiences From An Econometric Study Across 40 Countries," Regional Science Inquiry, Hellenic Association of Regional Scientists, vol. 0(1), pages 203-220, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:hrs:journl:v:xii:y:2020:i:1:p:203-220
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.rsijournal.eu/ARTICLES/June_2020/16.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:hrs:journl:v:xii:y:2020:i:1:p:203-220. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Dimitrios K. Kouzas (email available below). General contact details of provider: .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.