Chandler, Vincent; Heger, Dörte; Wuckel, Christiane - 2019
Taking advantage of temporal and geographical variations in the timing of school holidays in Germany, this paper finds … 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 …