title: The misery index and suicide.
abstract: From 1958-1992, the original misery index predicted the American suicide rate better than did a revised misery index.
authors.affiliation: Department of Economics, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Lester
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007250:Inflation, Economic / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012044:Regression Analysis; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012307:Risk Factors; D013405:Suicide / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014478:Unemployment / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*