prevalence. Cerqueira et al. (2018) 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 …

-satisfaction measures. The paper shows that there are approximately quadratic hill-shaped patterns in data on midlife suicide, sleeping …

scraped data from a newspaper archive and use suicide mentions per 100,000 pages as a proxy for suicides. Results show that … overall gold discoveries are linked with a clear reduction in newspaper suicide mentions. The results indicate that an … economic shock changes the suicide rate by one for every $136,659 to $251,145. This is estimate implies a higher cost …

‐scraped data from a newspaper archive and use suicide mentions per 100,000 pages to proxy for suicides. Overall, results show that … mined gold is linked with an apparent reduction in newspaper suicide mentions in line with previous research. …

determined suicide rates in the past. This is likely due to the lack of consistent data prior to the 20th century. In this … article, I propose using newspaper suicide mentions for the period 1840–1910 as a proxy measure for suicide and perform … several validation exercises. I show that the stylized facts like suicides drop during wars holds for suicide mentions. I also …

determined by her reproductive type and the amount of resources she can access. We introduce the possibility of suicide and … that populations where suicide is possible grow faster than other populations. …

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 …

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 …

In an economic theory of suicide, we model social cohesion of the religious community and religious beliefs about … afterlife as two mechanisms by which Protestantism increases suicide propensity. We build a unique micro-regional dataset of 452 … suicide. We address issues of bias from mental illness, misreporting, weather conditions, within-county heterogeneity …

This paper investigates how economic conditions are associated with age-sex group specific suicide rates in a panel of … income is negatively associated with suicide rates of men, while unemployment primarily affects suicide rates of women …