Journal article
The differential impact of the economy on suicide in the young and the elderly: The American experience
Archives of suicide research, v 1(2)
01 Apr 1995
Abstract
The suicide rates by age for each gender and race in the U.S.A. for the period 1940-1984 were used to test the general hypothesis that the suicide rate is affected by a combination of economic and social variables and, in particular, to explore the relationship between the economy and the suicide rate. It was found that the relationship between the economy and suicide was positive, as proposed by Ginsberg, for young adults but negative, as proposed by Henry and Short, for the elderly. Thus. no single theory could explain the complete set of results.
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- Title
- The differential impact of the economy on suicide in the young and the elderly: The American experience
- Creators
- Bijou Yang - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Archives of suicide research, v 1(2)
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Group
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Economics (School of Economics)
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-84937284999
- Other Identifier
- 991019339571504721