It is Time to Kill the Economic Theory of Suicide

Gary Smith

Economics Department, Working Paper Series from Economics Department, Pomona College

Abstract: A seminal paper by Hamermesh and Soss modeled suicide as a rational economic decision based on a comparison of the financial costs and benefits of staying alive. Their model is fundamentally flawed and their prediction that suicide rates increase with age is wrong.

Keywords: suicides; health; depression; economic sociology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-01-01, Revised 2019-06-04
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