The education–suicide mortality gradient

Adam Cook

Applied Economics Letters, 2019, vol. 26, issue 9, 717-721

Abstract: Using the fifth release of the National Longitudinal Mortality Survey, I examine the role of educational attainment and self-reported health on 6- and 11-year suicide mortality risk in the United States. I first replicate the original results reported by Hamermesh and Soss. . Then, augmenting the Hamermesh model with initial educational attainment and self-reported health status, I find that years of education significantly raises suicide mortality risk in the US after controlling for initial self-reported health. This result is robust to regression specification, replication and the inclusion of covariates.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2018.1489499

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