This paper empirically assesses the theory of interpersonal income comparison using individual level data on suicide … deaths in the United States. We model suicide as a choice variable, conditional on exogenous risk factors, reflecting an … individual's assessment of current and expected future utility. Our empirical analysis considers whether suicide risk is …

county, as well as improvements in self-reported mental and physical health. We further find that this reduction in suicide … is precisely what is predicted by the literature linking economic conditions to suicide risk …

highways. Others threaten lives - pollution, nuclear accidents, global warming, the rapid global transmission of disease, and …