Conceptualizing suicide in economic models
This review illustrates how a variety of economic models can be applied to suicidal behaviour, including a cost-benefit analysis, a demand-supply model, a labour force participation analogy, signalling game theory, investment under uncertainty, and economic definitions of irrationality.
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1996
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Authors: | Yang, Bijou ; Lester, David |
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Applied Economics Letters. - Taylor & Francis Journals, ISSN 1350-4851. - Vol. 3.1996, 3, p. 139-143
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Taylor & Francis Journals |
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