| 来源类型 | Working Paper
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| 规范类型 | 报告
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| DOI | 10.3386/w21279
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| 来源ID | Working Paper 21279
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| Suicide, Age, and Wellbeing: an Empirical Investigation |
| Anne Case; Angus Deaton
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| 发表日期 | 2015-06-22
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| 出版年 | 2015
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | Suicide rates, life evaluation, and measures of affect are all plausible measures of the mental health and wellbeing of populations. Yet in the settings we examine, correlations between suicide and measured wellbeing are at best inconsistent. Differences in suicides between men and women, between Hispanics, blacks, and whites, between age groups for men, between countries or US states, between calendar years, and between days of the week, do not match differences in life evaluation. By contrast, reports of physical pain are strongly predictive of suicide in many contexts. The prevalence of pain is increasing among middle-aged Americans, and is accompanied by a substantial increase in suicides and deaths from drug and alcohol poisoning. Our measure of pain is now highest in middle age—when life evaluation and positive affect are at a minimum. In the absence of the pain epidemic, suicide and life evaluation are likely unrelated, leaving unresolved whether either one is a useful overall measure of population wellbeing. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare
; Health
; Poverty and Wellbeing
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| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w21279
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| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/578954
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Anne Case,Angus Deaton. Suicide, Age, and Wellbeing: an Empirical Investigation. 2015.
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