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Socioeconomic Factors and Suicide Rates at Large-unit Aggregate Levels: A Comment

Eric Neumayer

Department of Geography and Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton Street, London, WC2A 2AE, UK, e.neumayer{at}lse.ac.uk

Can socioeconomic factors seemingly explain variation in suicide rates at large-unit aggregate levels only due to an ecological fallacy? This is what Kunce and Anderson (2002) suggest based on fixed-effects estimation of US state suicide rates, in which they find little evidence that socioeconomic factors matter. This paper demonstrates that this result does not hold true for other large-unit aggregate levels in an analysis of suicide at the cross-national level. It is found that many socioeconomic factors have a statistically significant impact. It is concluded that sociological and economic theories explaining variation in suicide rates at the large-unit aggregate level with the help of aggregate socioeconomic factors cannot simply be dismissed because of an alleged ecological fallacy.

Urban Studies, Vol. 40, No. 13, 2769-2776 (2003)
DOI: 10.1080/0042098032000191029
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