Benjamin Knoll finds a correlation between percent LDS in a state and suicide rates.

Date
2016
Type
Academic / Technical Report
Source
Benjamin Knoll
LDS
Hearsay
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Secondary
Reference

Benjamin Knoll, "Youth suicide rates and Mormon religious context: An additional empirical analysis," Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 49, no. 2 (2016): 25-44

Scribe/Publisher
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought
People
Benjamin Knoll
Audience
Reading Public
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Transcription

In 2014, a higher proportion of Mormons in a state was associated with a higher level of suicides among those aged fifteen to nineteen in that state, controlling for a host of other relevant factors that are also linked to aggregate suicide rates.

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