We investigate whether changes in economic inequality affect mortality in rich countries. To answer this question we … expectancy and positively related to infant mortality. However, in our preferred fixed-effects specification these relationships … share of the richest 10 percent affect homicide or suicide rates. …

article, suicide is placed within the general perspective of declining All Causes mortality. It is shown that suicide is … a weighted Potential Years of Life Lost measure, the suicide rate is not subject to secular decline. In fact, it has … Mokyr, an economic historian, about the importance of knowledge accumulation. It is argued that, in the case of suicide …

classified as suicides or transport accidents. For men, the excess hazard of all-cause mortality was best represented by a cubic …. For men, we observed a positive, linear increase in the hazard ratios associated with transport and suicide mortality, and … classified as suicide or transport accidents. In conclusion, mortality risk increases with the duration of unemployment among men …

Male suicide rates in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and the Baltic countries increased substantially in the early 1990s and … that the general adult male mortality crisis in the region had a ‘feedback’ effect on suicide rates, with the loss of a … are now the highest in the world. To what extent is this suicide epidemic explained by the macroeconomic instability …

suicides in northwestern Russia. Data on a total of 908 suicides in the town of Kirovsk (Murmansk oblast) were analyzed for the … period from 1948 to 2010. The rates of suicides were analyzed with respect to seasons of the year. We have identified three … maxima in the seasonal distribution of the number of suicides [March–May (P > 0.001), July (P = 0.006), October (P > 0 …

municipalities have different exposure to the reform. We report a significant impact of the land reform on the number of murders: In … murders decreased more than in those municipalities less exposed to the land reform. Our results suggest that clearly … measured by the number of murders. …

European Russia, there is a stark contrast between south-west and north-east, both in terms of total mortality and of cause … Russia. Thirdly, while it is difficult to infer any permanent geographical pattern of mortality from that very fluctuating …This paper performs a systematic analysis of all currently available Russian data on mortality by region, census year …

The paper studies determinants of Russian adult mortality controlling for individual and household heterogeneity. We … adult mortality. Survival analysis is the main methodology employed. The results are original in several respects. We find … empirical support to the importance of relative status measured in non-income terms in shaping mortality hazards while income …