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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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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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This paper studies the impact of female property rights on male and female suicide rates in India. Using state level … decrease in the difference between female and male suicide rates, but an increase in both male and female suicides. We …
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Suicide rates, life evaluation, and measures of affect are all plausible measures of the mental health and wellbeing of … populations. Yet in the settings we examine, correlations between suicide and measured wellbeing are at best inconsistent … contrast, reports of physical pain are strongly predictive of suicide in many contexts. The prevalence of pain is increasing …
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questioning. In addition, ABLs are associated with a 13-16 percent reduction in the suicide rate of female 14- through 18-year …
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time to estimate event study and difference-in-differences models of deaths due to drug overdose, suicide, and alcohol … reductions in non-drug suicides. A 10 percent minimum wage increase reduces non-drug suicides among low-educated adults by 2 …
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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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This paper estimates the effect of alcohol consumption on mortality using the minimum drinking age in a regression discontinuity design. We find that granting legal access to alcohol at age 21 leads to large and immediate increases in several measures of alcohol consumption, including a 21...
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of completed suicide? The question is important in part because of recent government warnings that question the safety of … arguments that SSRIs could have either positive or negative effects on suicide, randomized clinical trials have not been very … estimate the effect of SSRI sales on suicide mortality using just the variation in SSRI sales that can be explained by cross …
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Organized intergroup violence is almost universally modeled as a calculated act motivated by economic factors. In contrast, it is generally assumed that non-economic factors, such as an individual's emotional state, play a role in many types of interpersonal violence, such as "crimes of...
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