The home foreclosure crisis and rising suicide rates, 2005 to 2010

J.N. Houle and M.T. Light

American Journal of Public Health, 2014, vol. 104, issue 6, 1073-1079

Abstract: Objectives. We examined the association between state-level foreclosure and suicide rates from 2005 to 2010 and considered variation in the effect of foreclosure on suicide by age. Methods. We used hybrid random- and fixed-effects models to examine the relation between state foreclosure rates and total and age-specific suicide rates from 2005 to 2010 (n = 306 state-years). Results. Net of other factors, an increase in the within-state total foreclosure rate was associated with a within-state increase in the crude suicide rates (b = 0.04; P

Keywords: adolescent; adult; age; aged; article; economic recession; economics; housing; human; middle aged; socioeconomics; statistics; suicide; United States; young adult, Adolescent; Adult; Age Factors; Aged; Economic Recession; Housing; Humans; Middle Aged; Socioeconomic Factors; Suicide; United States; Young Adult (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2013.301774

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