global commodity prices to municipality level agricultural endowments in Brazil. We find that the firm creation response is …

. We explore the role of rent-seeking episodes in colonial Brazil as determinants of the quality of current local …

/capita, shares in world trade and market capitalization attributable both jointly and single to China, India, and Brazil (the three … Brazil. Our calculations show that the majority of the change occurs from growth in these three economies, and the most from …

Since Brazil's adoption of universal health care in 1988, the country's health care system has consisted of a mix of … in Brazil despite universal coverage using a nationally representative sample of over 48,000 households. Additional …

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 …