Male suicide rates in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and the Baltic countries increased substantially in the early 1990s and … are now the highest in the world. To what extent is this suicide epidemic explained by the macroeconomic instability … experienced by these countries in that period? Fixed effects regressions across 22 transition economies indicate that male suicide …

effects of suicide thoughts and suicide attempts on the work and schooling activities of young adults as well as on their … control for past suicide thoughts and attempts of the individuals from their high school years as well as the suicide … suicide thoughts and suicide attempts decrease the hourly wage rate and the probability that a young adult individual works …

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

suicide than those in other parts of Great Britain. This result is particularly driven by outcomes in Strathclyde and is …

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 …

-being literature and a matching hill-shape in especially female suicide risk (evident in 28 countries and visible in the United States …

of opioid abuse and suicide in the United States over the last two decades. We find that supply-side interventions … inherent risk of suicide. Our findings support an important role for access to treatment services in policies designed to …

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 …

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 …

-satisfaction measures. The paper shows that there are approximately quadratic hill-shaped patterns in data on midlife suicide, sleeping …