Suicide and divorce in South Korea: focusing on types of divorce

Jaewook Byeon

Applied Economics Letters, 2023, vol. 30, issue 2, 153-156

Abstract: Using a panel of province-level data in South Korea over the last two decades, this paper examines the effect of divorce on female and male suicide rates. By focusing on the types of divorce and the reasons for divorce, I find that a higher mutual-consent divorce rate is associated with a decrease in female suicide rate, whereas the judicial divorce rate is positively associated with male suicide rate. For the reasons for divorce, I find that an increase in divorce rate caused by unfaithful acts, a representative reason for judicial divorce, raises female suicide rate, while divorce rates caused by main reasons for mutual-consent divorce are negatively associated with female suicide rate.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2021.1980193

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