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NBER: Fw: suicide and education
Subject: Fw: suicide and education
From: Michael Grossman (mgrossman@gc.cuny.edu)
Date: Mon Aug 04 2003 - 16:29:14 EDT
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Alec Gershberg" <gersh@newschool.edu>
To: <mgrossman@gc.cuny.edu>
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 4:27 PM
Subject: suicide and education
> mike, could you distribute this note to the health econ group from the
> nber meetings in cambridge.
>
> colleagues from the nber health econ mtgs:
>
> during the discussion of markowitz's paper, i raised the issue that
> perhaps suicide was an "elitist" activity. this comment drew a few
> chuckles, and it was stated that suicide rates fell with rising
> education.
>
> i had the opportunity to talk with one of the leading national
> psychiatric experts on suicide. he in fact was very surprised at the
> assertion about suicide rates falling as education rises.
>
> he said it has been well documented that suicide rates rise with
> intelligence, creativity, risk taking, and especially being bi-polar
> (which apparently increases with education level).
>
> he said one of the most cited studies is from england where they looked
> at students from cambridge and oxford, students from 7 unnamed
> university (a true ignominy!), and those who did not attend university.
> suicide rates fell as the elite status of the education declined.
> similar studies have been done in the u.s.
>
> anyway, i thought i would share this in the interest of knowledge, and
> wonder what cut of what data shows suicide falling as education rises.
> it seems that suicide is in fact an elitist activity after all.
>
> i enjoyed interacting with all of you.
>
> best,
>
> alec
>
>
> Alec Ian Gershberg
> Associate Professor
> Robert J. Milano Graduate School
> of Management & Urban Policy
> New School University
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