Conceptualizing suicide in economic models

Bijou Yang and David Lester

Applied Economics Letters, 1996, vol. 3, issue 3, 139-143

Abstract: This review illustrates how a variety of economic models can be applied to suicidal behaviour, including a cost-benefit analysis, a demand-supply model, a labour force participation analogy, signalling game theory, investment under uncertainty, and economic definitions of irrationality.

Date: 1996
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DOI: 10.1080/135048596356537

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