Add to ORKGA seminal paper by Hamermesh and Soss modeled suicide as a rational economic decision based on a comparison of the financial costs and benefits of staying alive. Their model is fundamentally flawed and their prediction that suicide rates increase with age is wrong
Emile Durkheim’s Suicide documented a monotonically increasing rela-tion between age and suicide. Su...
It is understood that suicide is a major health problem and the leading cause of death worldwide. Be...
The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate, using some conventional concepts and procedures from th...
A seminal paper by Hamermesh and Soss modeled suicide as a rational economic decision based on a com...
On April 8th 1994 Kurt Cobain, the lead singer of Nirvana, was found dead in his Seattle home of an ...
Many Western countries have experienced the ‘rectangularisation of the [demographic] survival curve’...
In this article, we review economic theories and empirical studies on the socioeconomic aspects of s...
This study uses economic theory to investigate the impact of socioeconomic factors on the suicide ra...
The field of behavioral economics looks at the ways in which human factors are related to economic t...
This paper formalises an individual's decision about suicide within a framework of lifetime utility ...
Is there a rational component in the decision to commit suicide? Economists have been trying to shed...
According to Burri, a major reason why suicide is often irrational lies in the option value of life....
This paper discusses the rationality of suicide. Specifically, it will be argued that there are cert...
With suicide as a growing concern in model society, evolutionary psychology seeks to understand this...
Is there a rational component in the decision to commit suicide? Economists have been trying to shed...
Emile Durkheim’s Suicide documented a monotonically increasing rela-tion between age and suicide. Su...
It is understood that suicide is a major health problem and the leading cause of death worldwide. Be...
The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate, using some conventional concepts and procedures from th...
A seminal paper by Hamermesh and Soss modeled suicide as a rational economic decision based on a com...
On April 8th 1994 Kurt Cobain, the lead singer of Nirvana, was found dead in his Seattle home of an ...
Many Western countries have experienced the ‘rectangularisation of the [demographic] survival curve’...
In this article, we review economic theories and empirical studies on the socioeconomic aspects of s...
This study uses economic theory to investigate the impact of socioeconomic factors on the suicide ra...
The field of behavioral economics looks at the ways in which human factors are related to economic t...
This paper formalises an individual's decision about suicide within a framework of lifetime utility ...
Is there a rational component in the decision to commit suicide? Economists have been trying to shed...
According to Burri, a major reason why suicide is often irrational lies in the option value of life....
This paper discusses the rationality of suicide. Specifically, it will be argued that there are cert...
With suicide as a growing concern in model society, evolutionary psychology seeks to understand this...
Is there a rational component in the decision to commit suicide? Economists have been trying to shed...
Emile Durkheim’s Suicide documented a monotonically increasing rela-tion between age and suicide. Su...
It is understood that suicide is a major health problem and the leading cause of death worldwide. Be...
The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate, using some conventional concepts and procedures from th...