the time series evidence suggests that the relationship between suicide and unemployment appears to be weakening. …

Recent research claims that the major part of the observed reduction in suicide rates during the 1990's can be … reinvestigate the issue. After controlling for other covariates, observed as well as unobserved, that might affect the suicide rate …, we find, overall, no statistically significant effects from antidepressants on the suicide rate; when we do get …

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

incident. The results suggest that violent crime has large and persistent effects on mortality, suicide, earnings, work status …

that school holidays cause an 19 percent (0.03 percentage points) decrease in the probability of youth suicide. This effect … find evidence of a spike in suicide propensity in the first two days following the end of school holidays. The results are … that school holidays have a beneficial impact on the well-being of students and that suicide prevention efforts are …

In this paper we investigate the dual role of supply restrictions and drug treatment in combating the concurrent rise … of opioid abuse and suicide in the United States over the last two decades. We find that supply-side interventions … decrease suicides in places with strong addiction-help networks, implying that prescription drug abuse is associated with an …

This paper tests whether economic inequality is related to suicide mortality. Using an unbalanced panel of 40 countries … for the period 1947-2001 allows us to control for the effect of unobserved factors that may have an impact on suicide … suicide. The latter result seems to be robust to a number of specification issues explored in a sensitivity analysis. Our …

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 …

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

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