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I think it's very simplistic to say income is the driving force in these numbers. And I would be careful about explaining phenomena like this with your own pers

I think it's very simplistic to say income is the driving force in these numbers. And I would be careful about explaining phenomena like this with your own personal beliefs about society. Heres the very first study I found when googling income inequality and suicide [0]: > Our results indicate that there is a statistically insignificant positive effect of inequality on the incidence of suicide. 0: https://ideas.repec.org/p/adv/wpaper/200613.html https://ideas.repec.org/p/adv/wpaper/200613.html

dota_fanatic 11y ago
And yet that study is across 40 countries. It would have been nice if before putting that forth as evidence to the contrary, you'd read the second sentence of the abstract upon which you'd have found it's not relevant (at least, it's not relevant in the way that you cherry picked that quote). Having said that, your first paragraph is spot on.
DanBC 11y ago
>I think it's very simplistic to say income is the driving force in these numbers. For some groups of people (farmers, vets, construction workers) the correlations between the economy and suicide is very clear. There's pretty good correlation between economic downturn and increased rate of death by suicide. It is simplistic to just say "it's the economy", but the economy is pretty clearly one important factor.