Does educational expansion decrease suicide rates in European countries? The compositional effect in educational stratification of suicides

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216224:14230/22:00129005

Result on the web

<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11135-021-01160-4" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11135-021-01160-4</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11135-021-01160-4" target="_blank" >10.1007/s11135-021-01160-4</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Does educational expansion decrease suicide rates in European countries? The compositional effect in educational stratification of suicides

Original language description

The aim of the text is to analyse the relationship between educational expansion and suicide rates. To examine this relationship, we analyse data from 24 European countries from 1994 to 2014. First, we analyse data from an age-period-cohort (APC) perspective using the intrinsic estimator (IE) approach to identify all three effects separately. The results show that the changes in suicide rates are driven by the birth cohort effect rather than the period effect, with each successive cohort born after 1960 having a lower suicide rate than its predecessor. This finding implies a cohort replacement explanation in suicide trends. Second, we approach our data from a multilevel (hierarchical) perspective using a three-level negative binomial regression model (suicides, nested in years, nested in countries) and analyse the direct effect of educational expansion on suicides by age groups. The results show that the decline in suicide rates in European countries does not occur because of a change in suicidal behavior, but because of a change in the educational composition of populations. Educational expansion increases the proportion of young people with higher education who have a lower propensity to commit suicide; this mechanism decreases the suicide rates in European countries between 1994 and 2014.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50401 - Sociology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA19-06326S" target="_blank" >GA19-06326S: The Change of the Role of Education in European Labour Markets, 2000-2015</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Quality & Quantity

ISSN

0033-5177

e-ISSN

1096-0317

Volume of the periodical

55

Issue of the periodical within the volume

September

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

1-15

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85106300115