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1100  2020$c2020-11-13
1500  eng
2050  urn:nbn:de:hbz:464-20201113-182716-0
2051  10.17185/duepublico/73382
3000  Kronenberg, Christoph
4000  New(spaper) Evidence of a Reduction in  Suicide Mentions during the 19th‐century US  Gold Rush   [Kronenberg, Christoph]
4209  I analyze the relationship between state‐level economic shocks and suicides using historical US gold discoveries (1840‐1860) as a large unexpected economic shock. Gold discoveries were an unexpected and large economic shock of up to 3.5% of GDP. They provide as good as random variation to the local economy, that I use to estimate the effect of economic changes on suicides. Comprehensive mortality data by state and year does not exist for the US for 1840 to 1860. I thus make use of web scraped data from a newspaper archive and use suicide mentions per 100,000 pages as a proxy for suicides. Results show that overall gold discoveries are linked with a clear reduction in newspaper suicide mentions. The results indicate that an economic shock changes the suicide rate by one for every $136,659 to $251,145. This is estimate implies a higher cost‐effectiveness than previous research but is still seven to fourteen times the size of modern, cost‐effective suicide prevention method.
4950  https://doi.org/10.17185/duepublico/73382$xR$3Volltext$534
4950  https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:464-20201113-182716-0$xR$3Volltext$534
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5550   Economic Shock
5550  Gold Rush
5550   Newspaper
5550   Suicide