TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2009//
TI  - Is there a natural suicide rate?
JO  - Applied economics letters
A1  - Yang Lester, Bijou
A1  - Lester, David
SP  - 137
EP  - 140
VL  - 16
IS  - 2
N2  - 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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SN  - 1350-4851
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13504850601018189
ID  - ref1
ER  -