Social conformity and suicide

Anna Bussu, Claudio Detotto and Valerio Sterzi

Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), 2013, vol. 42, issue C, 67-78

Abstract: We study the relationship between suicide rates and socioeconomic factors by using a panel data at Italian province level in the time span 1996–2005. Our analysis focuses on the impact of social norms on suicidal behaviors. In particular, beyond the usual social correlates of suicide rates, we propose an aggregate measure of social conformity which refers to the religious sphere as an area of conflict between individual and social behaviors. GMM and dynamic spatial panel data approach are implemented to control for serial and spatial autocorrelation.

Keywords: Suicide; Family; Conformity; Social norms (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C2 I1 R1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2012.11.013

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