@article{ref1,
title="The impact of socioeconomic factors on state suicide rates: A methodological note",
journal="Urban studies",
year="2002",
author="Kunce, M. and Anderson, A.L.",
volume="39",
number="1",
pages="155-162",
abstract="This note examines the purported impact of conventional socioeconomic and social environment factors on annual, state-level suicide rates. <br><br>RESULTS from an inductive fixed-effects (covariance) analysis, of state-level time-series/cross-section data for the period 1985-95, do little to support Durkheim's social causes hypothesis that aggregate socioeconomic factors matter in explaining state suicide rates. A possible source of heterogeneity-aggregation bias is identified raising question surrounding past inferences made in aggregate suicide research. The data and empirical method support a mounting sentiment of an abiding ecological fallacy in the suicide literature. Implications of this investigation call for a shift in research focus and method to a smaller unit of analysis (for example, individual-level, controlling for key social processes).<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0042-0980",
doi="10.1080/00420980220099131",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00420980220099131"
}