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Table 11 Unemployment and suicides (IV)

From: Feeling useless: the effect of unemployment on mental health in the Great Recession

 

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

Variables

ln(suicides)

Unemployment rate

− 0.303

4.231**

4.706**

4.979**

3.846**

 

(0.808)

(1.981)

(2.008)

(2.122)

(1.624)

Cell fixed effects

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Year fixed effects

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Control of ln(population)

no

no

yes

yes

yes

Province time trend

no

no

no

yes

no

Survey years

2001–2011

2007–2011

2007–2011

2007–2011

2007–2011

Observations

2,035

921

921

921

1,283

R-squared

0.944

0.950

0.952

0.958

0.939

  1. Robust standard errors in parentheses. ***p < 0.01, **p < 0.05, *p < 0.1. Unemployment rate is the unemployment rate at the cell level. Column (1) uses data from 2001 to 2011. All other columns use data from 2007 to 2011. Columns (1) to (4) use cells defined by provinces, sex and a dummy of age < 40. Column (5) uses two age dummies < 30, > 50
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