Matsubayashi, Tetsuya; Sawada, Yasuyuki; Ueda, Michiko - In: Social Science & Medicine 82 (2013) C, pp. 126-133
Previous research shows no consensus as to whether and how natural disasters affect suicide rates in their aftermath …. Using prefecture-level panel data of natural disasters and suicide in Japan between 1982 and 2010, we estimate both … contemporaneous and lagged effects of natural disasters on the suicide rates of various demographic groups. We find that when the …