due to higher mortality generated by homicidal violence in Colombia during the period 1990-2005 isestimated. For this …

This paper describes the pattern of reductions in mortality across Brazilian municipalities between 1970 and 2000, and … expectancy has shifted consistently in the recent past. But reductions in mortality within Brazil have been more homogeneously … in mortality. The results suggest that gains in life expectancy had a welfare value equivalent to 39% of the growth in …

Suicide causes huge economic losses, and the study of suicide from a socio-economic perspective is indispensable. This … paper examines the factors affecting suicide in 13 European Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries … increasing impact of divorce rates and a decreasing effect of per capita real gross domestic product on suicide rates in nine …

This paper examines the factors affecting suicide in 13 European OECD countries from a socio-economic perspective. We … increasing impact of divorce rates and a decreasing effect of per capita real GDP on suicide are confirmed in 9 countries … rates, the results reveal that its increase leads to a decrease in suicide rates in four countries and a rise in suicide …

We investigate whether changes in economic inequality affect mortality in rich countries. To answer this question we … the population in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland … expectancy and positively related to infant mortality. However, in our preferred fixed-effects specification these relationships …

that the general adult male mortality crisis in the region had a ‘feedback’ effect on suicide rates, with the loss of a …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 …