The effect of war on personal aggression |
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| Authors: | David Lester PhD Bijou Yang PhD |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Executive Director, Center for the Study of Suicide , RR41, 5 Stonegate Court, Blackwood, NJ, 08012, USA;2. Assistant Professor of Economics , Drexel University , Philadelphia, USA |
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The effect of war on the suicide rate and on the relative likelihood of suicide as a proportion of total personal aggression was examined in the United States for the time period from 1933 to 1986. Once unemployment was controlled for, no effect of war was detected. |
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| Keywords: | War Suicide rate |
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