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This study has established a correlation between teen suicides and in-person schooling.
*An important point raised at the end of the synopsis: Auxiliary analyses using Google Trends queries and the Youth Risk Behavior Survey suggests that bullying victimization may be an important mechanism.
In statistics, correlation or dependence is any statistical relationship, whether causal or not, between two random variables or bivariate data. Wikipedia
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Benjamin Hansen, Joseph J. Sabia & Jessamyn Schaller
Working Paper 30795
DOI 10.3386/w30795
Issue Date December 2022
https://www.nber.org/papers/w30795
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