caa a22 4500 477055265 CHVBK 20180405111345.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19960801xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/2061766 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.2307/2061766 Pampel Fred Population Program, University of Colorado, 80309-0484, Boulder, CO aut Cohort size and age-specific suicide rates: A contingent relationship [Elektronische Daten] [Fred Pampel] Trends in age-specific suicide rates relate to debates about the consequences of population aging and changes in cohort size for social well-being. Easterlin argues that large cohort size increases suicide rates by reducing relative income; Preston claims that suicide rates fall in large cohorts with high levels of political and social power. To integrate these competing arguments, this paper uses aggregate data on 18 high-income nations from 1953 to 1986 to demonstrate that the direction and strength of the relationship between cohort size and suicide depend on (1) age of the cohort, (2) gender, (3) national context, and (4) time period. The results show that large cohort size raises suicide for the young and middle-aged, but reduces it for the elderly. Also, the effects of cohort size prove stronger for men than for women, for nations with less collectivist institutions than for nations with more collectivist institutions, and for the 1950s and 1960s than for the 1970s and 1980s. Population Association of America, 1996 Demography Springer-Verlag 33/3(1996-08-01), 341-355 0070-3370 33:3<341 1996 33 13524 https://doi.org/10.2307/2061766 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/2061766 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Pampel Fred Population Program, University of Colorado, 80309-0484, Boulder, CO aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Demography Springer-Verlag 33/3(1996-08-01), 341-355 0070-3370 33:3<341 1996 33 13524 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer