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A new study involving Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), based on administrative data from South Korea, projects that as higher education and lifelong singlehood become more common, the composition of older-age suicide deaths may shift toward never-married men with tertiary education. This does not mean that tertiary-educated individuals face higher suicide risks: Their suicide rates remain lower than those of less educa
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Suicide deaths in South Korea could shift toward older, never-married, tertiary-educated men
What happened
A new study involving Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), based on administrative data from South Korea, projects that as higher education and lifelong singlehood become more common, the composition of older-age suicide deaths may shift toward never-married men wit Suicide deaths in South Korea could shift toward older, never-married, tertiary-educated men
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