Suicide, Aging, and Permanent Income: A Social Norms Approach

Joe Chen () and Shih-Chang Huang ()
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Joe Chen: National Chengchi University
Shih-Chang Huang: Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research

Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 2020, vol. 150, issue 3, No 6, 867-885

Abstract: Abstract Existing economic models of suicide fail to explain sudden drastic change (“displacement”) in suicides and the lack of responses (“persistence”) in suicides after changes in underlying socioeconomic variables. A social norms model of suicide successfully explains the displacement and persistence of suicides as observed in some countries. The model suggests the role of social norms in suicides is complicated; social norms can act as a double-bladed sword. When there are few people in the society committed suicides, social norms suppresses the equilibrium suicides; on the other hand, when there are many people in the society committed suicides, social norms may promote the equilibrium suicides.

Keywords: Suicide; Aging; Permanent income; Social norms (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I30 J14 J17 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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