We examine the economic and social determinants of suicide mortality in a panel of 25 OECD countries over the period … 1970 - 2011 and explicitly analyze the effects of unemployment and labor market institutions on suicide rates. In line with … a large body of literature our results suggest that unemployment increases suicide mortality, while real economic growth …

Background: In this paper we investigate the causal relationship between suicide and a variety of socioeconomic … variables. We use a panel data set of Canadian provinces, 2000 - 2008, and a set of recent panel econometric techniques in order … of suicide in Canadian provinces vary across total, male, and female counts (natural logarithms) and rates. We also find …

We examine the economic and social determinants of suicide mortality in a panel of 25 OECD countries over the period … 1970 - 2011 and explicitly analyze the effects of unemployment and labor market institutions on suicide rates. In line with … suicide mortality. The results also indicate that unemployment benefits decrease suicides of males, while relatively strict …

Limited evidence regarding the effects of individual income and health on suicide was presented. We investigated how … through an analysis of micro panel data constructed by the Korean National Health Insurance. The data looked into a sample of … of suicide. Poor health is strongly related to a high risk of suicide. The effects of income are strongly revealed for …

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 …