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 …

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 …

Recent research claims that the major part of the observed reduction in suicide rates during the 1990's can be … reinvestigate the issue. After controlling for other covariates, observed as well as unobserved, that might affect the suicide rate …, we find, overall, no statistically significant effects from antidepressants on the suicide rate; when we do get …

suicide rates. Our results suggest that the passage of a medical marijuana law is associated with an almost 5 percent … reduction in the total suicide rate, an 11 percent reduction in the suicide rate of 20- through 29-year-old males, and a 9 … percent reduction in the suicide rate of 30- through 39-year-old males. Estimates of the relationship between legalization and …