Are socioeconomic factors valid determinants of suicide? Controlling for national cultures of suicide with fixed-effects estimation

Cross-Cultural Research

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 307-329

  Neumayer, Eric ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Durkheim; Fixed effects; National cultures; Random effects; Socioeconomic factors; Suicide

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042707683     PISSN: 10693971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1069397103253708     Document Type: Article

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