Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/214516 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
CREMA Working Paper No. 2012-12
Publisher: 
Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA), Basel
Abstract: 
In this study of the persistent social phenomenon of suicide, we find that even though theological and social differences between Catholicism and Protestantism have decreased, Catholics are still less likely than Protestants to commit or accept suicide. This difference remains even after we control for such confounding factors as social and religious network s. Although religious networks do mitigate suicides among Protestants, the influence of church attendance is more dominant among Catholics. The methodological strength of our paper is that it uses two data sets: a 20-year panel for Switzerland and a cross-sectional analysis of alternative religious concepts like religious commitment and religiosity in 414 European regions. We find that these alternative concepts strongly reduce acceptance of suicide .
Subjects: 
Suicide
Religion
Protestantism
Catholicism
JEL: 
Z12
I20
J24
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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