Neumayer, Eric 
ORCID: 0000-0003-2719-7563
(2003)
Socioeconomic factors and suicide rates at large-unit aggregate levels : a comment.
Urban Studies, 40 (13).
2769 -2776.
ISSN 0042-0980
Abstract
Can socioeconomic factors seemingly explain variation in suicide rates at large-unit aggregate levels only due to an ecological fallacy? This is what Kunce and Anderson (2002) suggest based on fixed-effects estimation of US state suicide rates, in which they find little evidence that socioeconomic factors matter. We demonstrate that this result does not hold true for other large-unit aggregate levels in our analysis of suicide at the cross-national level. We find that many socioeconomic factors have a statistically significant impact. We conclude that sociological and economic theories explaining variation in suicide rates at the large-unit aggregate level with the help of aggregate socioeconomic factors cannot simply be dismissed because of an alleged ecological fallacy.
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Geography & Environment |
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H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) |
| Date Deposited: |
18 May 2006 |
| Last Modified: |
28 Oct 2024 22:21 |
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http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/624 |
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