We examine the economic and social determinants of suicide mortality in a panel of 25 OECD countries over the period … 1970 - 2011 and explicitly analyze the effects of unemployment and labor market institutions on suicide rates. In line with … a large body of literature our results suggest that unemployment increases suicide mortality, while real economic growth …

In an economic theory of suicide, we model social cohesion of the religious community and religious beliefs about … afterlife as two mechanisms by which Protestantism increases suicide propensity. We build a unique micro-regional dataset of 452 … suicide. We address issues of bias from mental illness, misreporting, weather conditions, within-county heterogeneity …

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. -- religion ; suicide ; Prussian economic history …

Many experts claim that the incidence of suicide attacks is driven by religious cleavages. To test this hypothesis, we … investigate whether the total number of suicide attacks per violent conflict or the annual number of suicide attacks per country … the actual perpetrators and victims of suicide attacks. Our results do not indicate that religious cleavages are an …

-area currencies. First, using dynamic panel techniques, we estimate an error correction model for the dollar real exchange rate versus …

This paper develops an estimator for higher-order spatial autoregressive panel data error component models with spatial …

, using recent bootstrap panel cointegration techniques and SUR methods. We investigate the magnitude of the relationship … panel cointegration tests used allow for within and between correlation, while the SUR results show both positive and … balances. -- Budget balance ; external balance ; EU ; panel cointegration …

unbalanced panel of enterprise data from five waves of the Community Innovation Survey during 1994-2004. We estimate by maximum … likelihood a dynamic panel data bivariate tobit with double-index sample selection accounting for individual effects. We find … effects are also important. -- innovation ; panel bivariate tobit model ; innovation expenditures …