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This study explores the effect of in-person schooling on youth suicide. We document three key findings. First, using …
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The suicide rate in the United States has risen nearly 40 percent since 2000. This increase is puzzling because suicide … changing rate of suicide. General trends miss the story of important differences across groups - suicide rates rose … substantially among middle aged persons between 2005 and 2015 but have fallen since. Among young people, suicide rates began a rapid …
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effects of suicide thoughts and attempts on the probability of engaging in work or school. The richness of the data set allows …. The longitudinal nature of the data set also allows us to control for past suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts of the … identification strategies consistently indicate that both suicide thoughts and suicide attempts decrease the likelihood a young adult …
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This is a contribution to the new economics of skilled labor emigration that focuses on the mobility of medical doctors from sending Middle East and North African countries. Economic models under risk neutrality and aversion are used. The findings show that the relative expected benefits and the...
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This paper presents new evidence on the distribution of risk attitudes in the population, using a novel set of survey questions and a representative sample of roughly 22,000 individuals living in Germany. Using a question that asks about willingness to take risks in general, on an 11-point...
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detrimental effect on veterans' mental health leading to suicide in extreme cases. In addition, because rural veterans have much … raised the veteran suicide rate relative to the non-veteran ("civilian") rate with rural veterans suffering the lion's share … of the increase. We estimate that OSI raised the rural veteran suicide rate by a little over one-third between 2013 and …
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prevalence. Cerqueira et al. (2108) exploit the socioeconomic characteristics of suicide victims in order to develop a new and … model for the likelihood of committing suicide with gun. We empirically assess this new indicator using gun ownership data … from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) and suicide registers of the US National Center for Health …
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exogenous trade liberalization exhibit higher rates of suicide and related causes of death, concentrated among whites … manufacturing employment, a sector in which whites and males are disproportionately employed. We also examine other causes of death …
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county, as well as improvements in self-reported mental and physical health. We further find that this reduction in suicide … is precisely what is predicted by the literature linking economic conditions to suicide risk …
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In recent decades, death rates from poisonings, suicides, and alcoholic liver disease have dramatically increased in the United States. We show that these "deaths of despair" began to increase relative to trend in the early 1990s, that this increase was preceded by a decline in religious...
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