This study investigates the short-term mortality effects of two age-based restrictions on legal access to alcohol in … alcohol has, at most, a minor impact on drunk driving and mortality at age 16 and 18 years. This study thus provides fresh …

explains a large share of the mortality crisis, suggesting that Russia's transition to capitalism and democracy was not as …Political and economic transition is often blamed for Russia's 40% surge in deaths between 1990 and 1994 (the "Russian … Mortality Crisis"). Highlighting that increases in mortality occurred primarily among alcohol related causes and among working …

, on the elderly mortality in Russia. According to our study, crises have led to an increase in mortality with … for the rise in mortality. While increases at a higher rate compared to overall mortality, alcohol-related mortality … explains a relatively small part of total mortality rise …

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 …

Is there a rational component in the decision to commit suicide? Economists have been trying to shed light on this … question by studying whether suicide rates are related to contemporaneous conditions. This paper goes one step further: we test … whether suicides are linked to forward-looking behavior. In Italy, collective sentence reductions (pardons) often lead to …

of opioid abuse and suicide in the United States over the last two decades. We find that supply-side interventions … decrease suicides in places with strong addiction-help networks, implying that prescription drug abuse is associated with an … inherent risk of suicide. Our findings support an important role for access to treatment services in policies designed to …

Though there is clinical evidence linking pollution induced inflammatory factors and major depression and suicide, no … relationship between air pollution and suicide in the United States. Using detailed cause of death data from all death certificates … NASA satellite data, and suicide rates. Using wind direction as an instrument for reducing potentially endogeneity and …

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 …

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