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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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anticipate considerably lower earnings in subsequent years, even under the assumption of continuous employment after leaving …
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counterproductive consequences. This paper models a terrorist organization, a religious group from which the terrorists recruit suicide …
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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 …
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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 …
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than those of having considered or planned suicide and equivalent to having attempted suicide, which seemingly signify more …
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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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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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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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