Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2019
Abstract
A seminal paper by Hamermesh and Soss modeled suicide as a rational economic decision based on a comparison of the financial costs and benefits of staying alive. Their model is fundamentally flawed and their prediction that suicide rates increase with age is wrong.
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Recommended Citation
Smith, Gary N., "It is Time to Kill the Economic Theory of Suicide" (2019). Pomona Economics. 4.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/pomona_fac_econ/4
