Does cyberbullying impact youth suicidal behaviors?
J Health Econ
; 56: 30-46, 2017 12.
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ABSTRACT
Even though several youth fatal suicides have been linked with school victimization, there is lack of evidence on whether cyberbullying victimization causes students to adopt suicidal behaviors. To investigate this issue, I use exogenous state-year variation in cyberbullying laws and information on high school students from the Youth Risk Behavioral Survey within a bivariate probit framework, and complement these estimates with matching techniques. I find that cyberbullying has a strong impact on all suicidal behaviors it increases suicidal thoughts by 14.5 percentage points and suicide attempts by 8.7 percentage points. Even if the focus is on statewide fatal suicide rates, cyberbullying still leads to significant increases in suicide mortality, with these effects being stronger for men than for women. Since cyberbullying laws have an effect on limiting cyberbullying, investing in cyberbullying-preventing strategies can improve individual health by decreasing suicide attempts, and increase the aggregate health stock by decreasing suicide rates.
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Colección:
01-internacional
Banco de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Conducta del Adolescente
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Víctimas de Crimen
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Acoso Escolar
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Ideación Suicida
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Medios de Comunicación Sociales
Tipo de estudio:
Qualitative_research
Límite:
Adolescent
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Idioma:
En
Revista:
J Health Econ
Asunto de la revista:
HOSPITAIS
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SERVICOS DE SAUDE
Año:
2017
Tipo del documento:
Article