suicide rates. Our results suggest that the passage of a medical marijuana law is associated with an almost 5 percent … reduction in the total suicide rate, an 11 percent reduction in the suicide rate of 20- through 29-year-old males, and a 9 … percent reduction in the suicide rate of 30- through 39-year-old males. Estimates of the relationship between legalization and …

effects of suicide thoughts and suicide attempts on the work and schooling activities of young adults as well as on their … control for past suicide thoughts and attempts of the individuals from their high school years as well as the suicide … suicide thoughts and suicide attempts decrease the hourly wage rate and the probability that a young adult individual works …

suicide than those in other parts of Great Britain. This result is particularly driven by outcomes in Strathclyde and is …

firearm homicide and suicide rates. We find that the buyback led to a drop in the firearm suicide rates of almost 80 per cent …

We model the effect of Protestant vs. Catholic denomination in an economic theory of suicide, accounting for … circumvent selectivity bias. Protestantism had a substantial positive effect on suicide in 1816-21 and 1869-71. We address issues … gender composition. …

Male suicide rates in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and the Baltic countries increased substantially in the early 1990s and … are now the highest in the world. To what extent is this suicide epidemic explained by the macroeconomic instability … experienced by these countries in that period? Fixed effects regressions across 22 transition economies indicate that male suicide …

-utero child, we know little about the effects of psychological stresses. One clear form of stress to the mother comes from the …

stress, income and hours worked. However, despite these large effects on job attributes, we find that promotions have … deterioration two years after receiving a promotion. Thus, it seems the additional stress involved with promotions eventually …