Loureiro, Paulo Roberto Amorim; Moreira, Tito Belchior Silva - In: Journal of Economic Studies 42 (2015) 3, pp. 415-432
Purpose – An important question about the determinants of suicide refers to the role of media. In this context, the … of media. Design/methodology/approach – Using data for the 27 Brazilian states, for the period 1980-2009, to investigate … the impact of the media index, unemployment rate, divorce rate and other explanatory variables on the rate of suicide by …