Socioeconomic disparities in suicide: Causation or confounding?

V Lorant, D Kapadia, J Perelman… - PLoS one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Background Despite an overall reduction in suicide, educational disparities in suicide have
not decreased over the last decade. The mechanisms behind educational disparities in …

The relationship between general population suicide rates and educational attainment: a cross-national study

A Shah, R Bhandarkar - Suicide and life-threatening behavior, 2009 - Guilford Press
Suicides are associated with both high and low levels of intelligence and educational
attainment in both individual-level and aggregate-level studies. A cross-national study …

Does the level of education influence completed suicide? A nationwide register study

M Pompili, M Vichi, P Qin, M Innamorati… - Journal of affective …, 2013 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate whether education attainment was associated with completed
suicide, a topic only marginally investigated in the literature. METHODS: Data for the years …

Differences in US suicide rates by educational attainment, 2000–2014

JA Phillips, K Hempstead - American journal of preventive medicine, 2017 - Elsevier
Introduction The purpose of this study was to document the association between education
and suicide risk, in light of rising suicide rates and socioeconomic differentials in mortality in …

Socioeconomic inequalities in suicide in Europe: the widening gap

V Lorant, R De Gelder, D Kapadia, C Borrell… - The British Journal of …, 2018 - cambridge.org
BackgroundSuicide has been decreasing over the past decade. However, we do not know
whether socioeconomic inequality in suicide has been decreasing as well. AimsWe …

A European comparative study of marital status and socio-economic inequalities in suicide

V Lorant, AE Kunst, M Huisman, M Bopp… - Social science & …, 2005 - Elsevier
We assess (i) whether being married is a protective factor against socio-economic
inequalities in suicide, and (ii) whether any such buffering effect varies between countries …

Educational inequalities in suicide in a middle‐income country: A socioeconomic approach of mental health

I Ordóñez‐Monak, I Arroyave… - Suicide and Life …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Objective This research aims to describe trends in inequalities in suicide mortality by
educational level in Colombia between 1998 and 2015. Method Standardized suicide …

Suicide, socio-economic inequalities, gender, and psychiatric disorders commentary: Educational levels and risk of suicide in Japan: The Japan Public Health Center …

E Yoshioka - Journal of Epidemiology, 2016 - jstage.jst.go.jp
This issue of the Journal of Epidemiology includes a report titled “Educational Levels and
Risk of Suicide in Japan: The Japan Public Health Center Study (JPHC) Cohort I” by Kimura …

The causal effect of education and cognitive performance on risk for suicide attempt: A combined instrumental variable and co-relative approach in a Swedish national …

S Lannoy, H Ohlsson, KS Kendler, J Sundquist… - Journal of affective …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background The aim of this study was to clarify the possible causal associations between
education phenotypes and non-fatal suicide attempts. In particular, we evaluated the roles of …

Education and risk of suicide: an analysis of African Americans

S Stack - Sociological Focus, 1998 - Taylor & Francis
The effect of education level on suicide risk among African Americans is a neglected subject.
Gains in educational attainment for African Americans over the last three decades have not …