may result in suicide, and lack of family companionship is often speculated to be a major cause. In this paper, we use … high-frequency suicide rate data and utilize a novel temporal variation in the lunisolar calendar to provide evidence on … companionship) on elderly suicide. We find that elderly suicide rate decreases by 8.7% during the Chinese Lunar New Year. In …

counterproductive consequences. This paper models a terrorist organization, a religious group from which the terrorists recruit suicide …

This paper examines whether house demolitions are an effective counterterrorism tactic against suicide terrorism. We … suicide attacks against Israeli targets. By exploiting spatial and time variation in house demolitions and suicide terror … attacks during the second Palestinian uprising, we show that punitive house demolitions (those targeting Palestinian suicide …

We analyze the link between economic conditions and the quality of suicide terrorism. While the existing empirical …, higher-impact, terror missions. Using the universe of Palestinian suicide terrorists against Israeli targets between the … years 2000 and 2006 we provide evidence on the correlation between economic conditions, the characteristics of suicide …

than those of having considered or planned suicide and equivalent to having attempted suicide, which seemingly signify more …

questioning. In addition, ABLs are associated with a 13-16 percent reduction in the suicide rate of female 14- through 18-year …

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 …

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 …

time to estimate event study and difference-in-differences models of deaths due to drug overdose, suicide, and alcohol …