Fang, Hanming; Lei, Ziteng; Lin, Liguo; Zhang, Peng - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
may result in suicide, and lack of family companionship is often speculated to be a major cause. In this paper, we use … high-frequency suicide rate data and utilize a novel temporal variation in the lunisolar calendar to provide evidence on … companionship) on elderly suicide. We find that elderly suicide rate decreases by 8.7% during the Chinese Lunar New Year. In …
