@article{ref1,
title="Socioeconomic factors and suicide rates at large-unit aggregate levels: A comment",
journal="Urban studies",
year="2003",
author="Neumayer, E.",
volume="40",
number="13",
pages="2769-2776",
abstract="Can socioeconomic factors seemingly explain variation in suicide rates at large-unit aggregate levels only due to an ecological fallacy? This is what Kunce and Anderson (2002) suggest based on fixed-effects estimation of US state suicide rates, in which they find little evidence that socioeconomic factors matter. This paper demonstrates that this result does not hold true for other large-unit aggregate levels in an analysis of suicide at the cross-national level. It is found that many socioeconomic factors have a statistically significant impact. It is concluded that sociological and economic theories explaining variation in suicide rates at the large-unit aggregate level with the help of aggregate socioeconomic factors cannot simply be dismissed because of an alleged ecological fallacy.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0042-0980",
doi="10.1080/0042098032000191029",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0042098032000191029"
}