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Explaining regional differences in suicide rates.

D Lester
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Social characteristics of the states of America in 1959-1961 predicted the suicide rate of those born in noncontiguous states and abroad, but not the suicide rates of those born in-state or in contiguous states. The results were seen as supporting the selective migration explanation of state suicide rates and as not supporting composition and local area explanations.

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D Lester. 1995. Explaining regional differences in suicide rates.. https://doi.org/10.1016/0277-9536(94)00141-f

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