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NBER: Fw: suicide and education
Subject: Fw: suicide and education
From: Michael Grossman (mgrossman@gc.cuny.edu)
Date: Tue Aug 05 2003 - 08:49:29 EDT
Michael Grossman
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----- Original Message -----
From: "ted joyce" <ted_joyce@baruch.cuny.edu>
To: "Alec Gershberg" <gersh@newschool.edu>
Cc: "Michael Grossman" <mgrossman@gc.cuny.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 8:37 AM
Subject: Re: suicide and education
> Alec,
>
> I went to google. This is from the British Med Journal using Dannish
> registries,which are about the best in the world, suicide rises as income
> falls.
>
> http://bmj.com/cgi/reprint/322/7282/334.pdf
>
> Ted
>
> Ted Joyce
> Baruch College, CUNY &
> National Bureau of Economic Research
> 365 Fifth Ave, 5th Floor
> NY, NY 10016
> 212-817-7960
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alec Gershberg" <gersh@newschool.edu>
> To: <mgrossman@gc.cuny.edu>
> Cc: <smarkow@andromeda.Rutgers.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
> > 72 Fifth Avenue, 5th floor
> > New York, NY 10011
> >
> > Ph: (212) 229.5311 x 1412
> > Fax: (212) 229.5404
> >
> > gersh@newschool.edu
> > http://www.newschool.edu/milano/alec/Alec.htm
> >
> >
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