SOCIO-ECONOMIC STUDIES ON SUICIDE: A SURVEY
SOCIO-ECONOMIC STUDIES ON SUICIDE: A SURVEY
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1467-6419.2010.00645.x
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发表时间：
2012-04-01
影响因子：
5.3
通讯作者：
Sugano, Saki
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作者：
Chen, Joe;Choi, Yun Jeong;Sugano, Saki
在本文中，我们回顾了自杀的社会经济方面的经济理论和实证研究。通过我们的调查，我们想强调通过采用合理的方法来研究自杀的重要性，以补充自杀的医学观点。我们首先介绍自杀的主要经济学理论，然后从社会经济角度总结各种实证研究。为了阐明混合的经验证据，我们采用元回归方法来研究现有的经验结果如何变化。我们在现有文献中发现了关于几个常用社会经济因素的出版偏见，这一点以前没有强调过。现有研究的几个特征已被确定为影响定性结果。然后，我们根据作者正在进行的自杀项目讨论自杀经济学研究的最新进展。在结论部分，我们指出了一些需要进一步研究的问题。
In this paper, we review economic theories and empirical studies on the socio-economic aspects of suicide. Through our survey, we would like to emphasize the importance of studying suicide by employing a rational approach that complements the medical perspective on suicide. We first introduce major economic theories of suicide and then present a summary of a variety of empirical studies from the socio-economic perspective. To shed light on the mixed empirical evidence, we employ a meta-regression method to investigate how the existing empirical results vary. We have identified a publication bias, not highlighted previously, in the existing literature with respect to several commonly employed socio-economic factors. Several characteristics of existing studies have been identified as influencing the qualitative outcome. We then discuss the recent developments in economic studies on suicide, on the basis of the authors ongoing project on suicide. In the concluding section, we point out some issues for further studies.