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Suicide is a major cause of preventable death. Restricting access to lethal means has been identified as an effective … approach to suicide prevention, and firearms regulations are one way to reduce gun availability. This study examines the … relationship between state firearms regulations and suicide among males, using negative binomial regression and state panel data …
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Suicide is a major cause of preventable death. Restricting access to lethal means has been identified as an effective … approach to suicide prevention, and firearms regulations are one way to reduce gun availability. This study examines the … relationship between state firearms regulations and suicide among males, using negative binomial regression and state panel data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008636486
that gun control measures such as permit and licensing requirements might have public health benefits. -- suicide; guns …Suicide is a major cause of preventable death. Restricting access to lethal means has been identified as an effective … approach to suicide prevention, and firearms regulations are one way to reduce gun availability. This study examines the …
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and suicide from the medical that is often used for public policy advocacy. This result is, unfortunately, heavily biased …
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We provide the first quasi-experimental estimates of variation in suicide impulsivity by age by examining the impact of … robustness of our results. We find that purchase delay laws reduce firearm suicide for the overall adult population, but this … relationship between purchase delay laws and firearm suicide reduction weakens with age and is not driven by gun ownership rates …
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The question to what extent corruption influences suicide remains still unanswered. This paper examines the effect of … corruption on suicide using a panel data approach for 24 OECD countries over the period 1995-2004. Our results show that suicide …
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The question to what extent corruption influences suicide remains still unanswered. This paper examines the effect of … corruption on suicide using a panel data approach for 24 OECD countries over the period 1995-1999. Our results indicate suicide …
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Panel data regressions for 24 OECD countries showed that the less corrupt a society is, the lower the total suicide …
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prevalence. Cerqueira et al. (2108) exploit the socioeconomic characteristics of suicide victims in order to develop a new and … model for the likelihood of committing suicide with gun. We empirically assess this new indicator using gun ownership data … from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) and suicide registers of the US National Center for Health …
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This paper characterizes the link between ambient temperatures and a broad set of mental health outcomes. We find that higher temperatures increase emergency department visits for mental illness, suicides, and self-reported days of poor mental health. Specifically, cold temperatures reduce...
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