TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2021//
TI  - Opposite nonlinear effects of unemployment and sentiment on male and female suicide rates: evidence from Australia
JO  - Social science and medicine (1982)
A1  - Botha, Ferdi
A1  - Nguyen, Viet H.
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - We investigate gender differences in the effects of unemployment and sentiment on suicide rates. Using monthly Australian data, we find a positive relationship between the unemployment rate and the suicide rate, and a negative relationship between consumer sentiment and the suicide rate. However, there is strong evidence of nonlinearity in the effects of both unemployment and sentiment on suicide rates, with substantial gender differences. For men, an increase in the unemployment rate increases the suicide rate, but an unemployment decrease has no effect; we find the opposite for women. For men, an increase in sentiment has stronger effects on the suicide rate than a decrease in sentiment. Again, we observe the opposite effect for women. Among sentiment components, forward-looking expectations are stronger predictors of suicide rates than present conditions. Sentiment has a much stronger effect on male suicide rates than on female suicide rates.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0277-9536
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114536
ID  - ref1
ER  -