Socioeconomic ramifications of changing cohort size: an analysis of U.S. postwar suicide rates by age and sex

Ahlburg, Dennis A.; Schapiro, Morton Owen

doi:10.2307/2061030

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“…Following tradition (Ahlburg and Schapiro 1984;Easterlin 1987) we use relative cohort size for the two youngest age groups (i.e., females 15-24/females 35-64 and females 25-34/females 45-74). Large cohort size is expected to increase suicide rates among the young because large youthful cohorts will experience low wages, employment problems, declining marriage rates, and marital instability.…”

Section: Independent Variablesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Societal Integration, Culture, and Period: Their Impact on Female Age-Specific Suicide Rates in 20 Developed Countries, 1955–1989

Cutright¹,

Fernquist²

2000

Sociological Focus

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Section: Independent Variablesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Societal Integration, Culture, and Period: Their Impact on Female Age-Specific Suicide Rates in 20 Developed Countries, 1955–1989

Cutright¹,

Fernquist²

2000

Sociological Focus

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“…Previous empirical examinations of the correlations between suicide and macroeconomic and macrosocial variables have typically utilized time series data aggregated at the national level [23,24,6,4] or cross sections of US states or of countries [25,26]. Pitfalls of using aggregate time series include potential spurious correlation of suicide rates and economic conditions due to omitted time-varying factors, and biased estimates of slope parameters if aggregation is taken across heterogeneous populations.…”

Section: Empirical Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

A theoretical model of adolescent suicide and some evidence from US data

Mathur

Freeman

2002

Health Economics

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Suicide rates for adolescents have doubled since 1970 and tripled since 1960, even as rates for other age groups have declined. Using a Becker-type model of household production and consumption, we demonstrate conditions under which utility maximizing parents allocate time away from time-intensive commodities like children's well-being, and towards market work and less time-intensive consumption commodities. This reallocation of time towards market work has mixed effects on children' mental health: higher money income tends to improve family and children's well-being, but the loss of parental time has an opposite effect on children's mental health and increases the risk of adolescent suicide. Empirical evidence using state panel regressions of adolescent suicide rates on economic, social and demographic variables is consistent with predictions based on our model; our results indicate that the favorable effect of higher incomes has more than offset the negative effect of lost parental time.

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“…The effects of cohort size on political alienation are currently being debated (Kahn and Mason 1987;O'Brien and Gwartney-Gibbs 1989). Significant positive effects on both suicide (Ahlburg and Schapiro 1984) and homicide (Easterlin and Schapiro 1979;Smith 1986) have been reported. Several recent studies attempt to relate cohort size to rates of delinquency and crime, with somewhat mixed results.…”

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confidence: 99%

Relative Well-Being Among Children and the Elderly: The Effects of Age Group Size and Family Structure

South

Tolnay

1992

The Sociological Quarterly

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While recent decades have witnessed sharply divergent trajectories in the well‐being of children and the elderly, little research explores the social‐structural forces behind these trends. This study examines several key elements of Preston's theory relating relative age group size to the well‐being of children and the elderly. First considered is the degree to which membership in a relatively large age group enhances well‐being; second, the role of family structure in promoting well‐being: third, differences between these processes for children and the elderly. An analysis of three indicators of group well‐being—poverty, mortality, and suicide rates—for U.S. states provides mixed support for Preston's theory. Among the elderly, group size is inversely related to suicide and mortality, but unrelated to poverty. Contrary to Preston's view, larger group size diminishes the well‐being of children. However. consistent with Preston's theory, family structure is substantially more important for the well‐being of children than for the elderly.

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Socioeconomic ramifications of changing cohort size: an analysis of U.S. postwar suicide rates by age and sex

Cited by 79 publications

References 22 publications

Societal Integration, Culture, and Period: Their Impact on Female Age-Specific Suicide Rates in 20 Developed Countries, 1955–1989

Societal Integration, Culture, and Period: Their Impact on Female Age-Specific Suicide Rates in 20 Developed Countries, 1955–1989

A theoretical model of adolescent suicide and some evidence from US data

Relative Well-Being Among Children and the Elderly: The Effects of Age Group Size and Family Structure

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