Journal article
Is there a natural suicide rate?
Applied economics letters, v 16(2), pp 137-140
26 Jan 2009
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Abstract
In order to explore whether societies have a natural (nonzero) suicide rate, regression equations were derived predicting the suicide rate over the regions of 11 nations and over time in 13 nations from the divorce and unemployment rates. All of the regression equations had positive constant terms, indicating a nonzero, positive natural suicide when socio-economic conditions were set to minimize the suicide rate.
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- Title
- Is there a natural suicide rate?
- Creators
- Bijou Yang - Drexel UniversityDavid Lester - Stockton University
- Publication Details
- Applied economics letters, v 16(2), pp 137-140
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Economics (School of Economics)
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000262723900006
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-58949095923
- Other Identifier
- 991019339693004721
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- Web of Science research areas
- Economics