Since the landmark ruling in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health in 2004, the legalization of same-sex marriage … argue that marriage equality will generate important health benefits not only for adult same-sex couples, but also for LGBQ …-identifying youths. Using data from the State Youth Risk Behavior Surveys, we explore the relationship between marriage equality and …

partner violence, and construct a theory to explain them. Transfers to women averaging USD 709 reduced physical and sexual … violence (-0:26, -0:22 standard deviations). Transfers to men reduced physical violence (-0:18 SD). We find spillovers …: physical violence towards non-recipient women in treatment villages decreased (-0:16 SD). We show theoretically that transfers …

violence often leave and return multiple times. To explain this we develop a model of time inconsistent preferences in the … context of domestic violence. This time inconsistency generates a demand for commitment. We present supporting evidence that …

detrimental effect on veterans' mental health leading to suicide in extreme cases. In addition, because rural veterans have much … raised the veteran suicide rate relative to the non-veteran ("civilian") rate with rural veterans suffering the lion's share … of the increase. We estimate that OSI raised the rural veteran suicide rate by a little over one-third between 2013 and …

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 …

exogenous trade liberalization exhibit higher rates of suicide and related causes of death, concentrated among whites …

county, as well as improvements in self-reported mental and physical health. We further find that this reduction in suicide … is precisely what is predicted by the literature linking economic conditions to suicide risk …

This study explores the effect of in-person schooling on youth suicide. We document three key findings. First, using …