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Depression Rate, GDP Growth Rate, Health Expenditure, and Voice and Accountability: Are There Co-Movements?

Depression Rate, GDP Growth Rate, Health Expenditure, and Voice and Accountability: Are There Co-Movements?

Ramesh Chandra Das, Amit Chatterjee
Copyright: © 2023 |Pages: 17
ISBN13: 9781668474600|ISBN10: 1668474603|EISBN13: 9781668474617
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-7460-0.ch096
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Das, Ramesh Chandra, and Amit Chatterjee. "Depression Rate, GDP Growth Rate, Health Expenditure, and Voice and Accountability: Are There Co-Movements?." Research Anthology on Macroeconomics and the Achievement of Global Stability, edited by Information Resources Management Association, IGI Global, 2023, pp. 1831-1847. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-7460-0.ch096

APA

Das, R. C. & Chatterjee, A. (2023). Depression Rate, GDP Growth Rate, Health Expenditure, and Voice and Accountability: Are There Co-Movements?. In I. Management Association (Ed.), Research Anthology on Macroeconomics and the Achievement of Global Stability (pp. 1831-1847). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-7460-0.ch096

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Das, Ramesh Chandra, and Amit Chatterjee. "Depression Rate, GDP Growth Rate, Health Expenditure, and Voice and Accountability: Are There Co-Movements?." In Research Anthology on Macroeconomics and the Achievement of Global Stability, edited by Information Resources Management Association, 1831-1847. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2023. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-7460-0.ch096

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Abstract

Existing studies on mental disorder reveal that, besides biological factors, major socioeconomic factors are responsible behind the ever-increasing prevalence of the part of population suffering from mental depression. The present study investigates whether depression rate has long run co-movements with growth of per capita GDP, health expenditure, and voice and accountability of the citizens for individuals as well as panels of four countries, USA, China, India, and Bangladesh, for the period 1995 to 2016. Using cointegration, error correction, and causality testing, the study observes that individual countries do not produce acceptable and robust results, but the panel data results produce long run relations among the four endogenous variables. The Wald test results show that all the two lagged values of depression rate, growth rate, health expenditure and voice and accountability are causing depression in the current period.

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