Economic reform and mortality in the former Soviet Union: A study of the suicide epidemic in the 1990s

European Economic Review

Volumn 45, Issue 4-6, 2001, Pages 1007-1019

  Brainerd, Elizabeth ^a,b  

^a WILLIAMS COLLEGE   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Mortality; Suicide; Transition economies

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC REFORM; MORTALITY; SUICIDE; TRANSITIONAL ECONOMY;

BALTIC STATES; BELARUS; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; UKRAINE;

EID: 0035000376     PISSN: 00142921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0014-2921(01)00108-8     Document Type: Article

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