may result in suicide, and lack of family companionship is often speculated to be a major cause. In this paper, we use … high-frequency suicide rate data and utilize a novel temporal variation in the lunisolar calendar to provide evidence on … companionship) on elderly suicide. We find that elderly suicide rate decreases by 8.7% during the Chinese Lunar New Year. In …

Suicide rates among youths aged 15-24 have tripled in the past half-century, even as rates for adults and the elderly … have declined. And for every youth suicide completion, there are nearly 400 suicide attempts. This paper examines the … dynamics of youth suicide attempts and completions, and reaches three conclusions. First, we suggest that many suicide attempts …

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 …

questioning. In addition, ABLs are associated with a 13-16 percent reduction in the suicide rate of female 14- through 18-year …

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 …

mortality from alcohol poisoning, drug overdose and suicide. We investigate whether these "deaths of despair" trends have been …

SSM laws have reduced suicide attempts among teen sexual minorities, nor have they decreased the likelihood of suicide … planning, suicide ideation, or depression. Instead, we find some evidence that SSM legalization via judicial mandate is …

, suicide, alcohol) in 2017 and 2018 are good predictors of the demographic groups with NCEDs in 2020. The NCEDs are …

counterproductive consequences. This paper models a terrorist organization, a religious group from which the terrorists recruit suicide …