TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2005//
TI  - Suicide and business cycles: new empirical evidence
JO  - Applied economics letters
A1  - Viren, Matti
SP  - 887
EP  - 891
VL  - 12
IS  - 14
N2  - This paper provides an empirical test for the hypothesis that suicides are related to economic determinants. More precisely a hypothesis is tested that changes in the suicide rate are determined by changes in the expected growth rate of income. This hypothesis is tested with an error-correction model which also takes into account various demographic and socioeconomic variables. Empirical results with Finnish data covering the period 1878–1999 provide strong support for this hypothesis.<p />
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SN  - 1350-4851
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13504850500359411
ID  - ref1
ER  -