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The social and economic determinants of suicide in Canadian provinces

2015; BioMed Central; Volume: 5; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1186/s13561-015-0041-y

2191-1991

João Tovar Jalles, Martin A. Andresen,

Health disparities and outcomes

In this paper we investigate the causal relationship between suicide and a variety of socioeconomic variables. We use a panel data set of Canadian provinces, 2000 - 2008, and a set of recent panel econometric techniques in order to account for a variety of statistical specification issues.