Explaining regional differences in suicide rates

David Lester

Social Science & Medicine, 1995, vol. 40, issue 5, 719-721

Abstract: Social characteristics of the states of America in 1959-1961 predicted the suicide rate of those born in noncontiguous states and abroad, but not the suicide rates of those born in-state or in contiguous states. The results were seen as supporting the selective migration explanation of state suicide rates and as not supporting composition and local area explanations.

Keywords: suicide; migration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1995
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