Background: In this paper we investigate the causal relationship between suicide and a variety of socioeconomic … of suicide in Canadian provinces vary across total, male, and female counts (natural logarithms) and rates. We also find … necessary for a better understanding of the factors that impact suicide (consistent with previous research) and that the choice …

-being literature and a matching hill-shape in especially female suicide risk (evident in 28 countries and visible in the United States …

incident. The results suggest that violent crime has large and persistent effects on mortality, suicide, earnings, work status …

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 …

suicides on a general population's suicide rate. This study presents a new approach to empirically disentangle both mechanisms … unexpectedly from causes other than suicide (accidents, illnesses, alcohol abuse). Based on language and page-link data from 3 …,855 Wikipedia pages of 495 celebrities who committed suicide between 1960 and 2014, we measure the status a celebrity has in a …

of opioid abuse and suicide in the United States over the last two decades. We find that supply-side interventions … inherent risk of suicide. Our findings support an important role for access to treatment services in policies designed to …

This paper tests whether economic inequality is related to suicide mortality. Using an unbalanced panel of 40 countries … for the period 1947-2001 allows us to control for the effect of unobserved factors that may have an impact on suicide … suicide. The latter result seems to be robust to a number of specification issues explored in a sensitivity analysis. Our …

Male suicide rates in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and the Baltic countries increased substantially in the early 1990s and … are now the highest in the world. To what extent is this suicide epidemic explained by the macroeconomic instability … experienced by these countries in that period? Fixed effects regressions across 22 transition economies indicate that male suicide …