Book chapter
A Prolegomenon to Behavioral Economic Studies of Suicide
Handbook of Contemporary Behavioral Economics, pp 565-581
2006
Abstract
Suicide ranked as the eleventh leading cause of death in the United States in 2001. There were
30,622 suicides as compared to 20,308 murder victims. The suicide rate of 10.8 per 100,000
people per year was higher than the homicide rate of 7.1, and so people were 50 percent more
likely to commit suicide than to be murdered. On the average, one person committed suicide in
this country every 17.2 minutes (McIntosh 2003). However, compared to other countries, suicide
mortality in the United States is not as dire as it may seem. According to the World Health
Organization’s World Health Statistical Annual (now online at www.who.int), in 2000 Lithuania,
Belarus, and Russia had the highest suicide rates, almost four times that of the United States.1
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Details
- Title
- A Prolegomenon to Behavioral Economic Studies of Suicide
- Creators
- Bijou Yang - Drexel UniversityDavid Lester - Brandeis University
- Publication Details
- Handbook of Contemporary Behavioral Economics, pp 565-581
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Economics (School of Economics)
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-57649206597
- Other Identifier
- 991019339571604721