Citation

Buryi P, Gilbert S. Appl. Econ. Lett. 2014; 21(18): 1253-1256.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/13504851.2014.920470

PMID

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Abstract

Among the many documented benefits of a college education is a higher level of self-reported happiness. The present work considers instead the level of demonstrated happiness and unhappiness within groups, the latter proxied by the conditional probability of suicide within groups having a college education and those without. Those with college are not happier for it, in these terms, and actually have slightly higher rates of suicide than those without college, based on a recent US data. © 2014, © 2014 Taylor & Francis.

Language: en

Keywords

United States; suicide; education; higher education; social problem; probability; happiness; university sector; logit