Suicide rates, life evaluation, and measures of affect are all plausible measures of the mental health and wellbeing of … populations. Yet in the settings we examine, correlations between suicide and measured wellbeing are at best inconsistent …. Differences in suicides between men and women, between Hispanics, blacks, and whites, between age groups for men, between …

Male suicide rates in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and the Baltic countries increased substantially in the early 1990s and … that the general adult male mortality crisis in the region had a "feedback" effect on suicide rates, with the loss of a … are now the highest in the world. To what extent is this suicide epidemic explained by the macroeconomic instability …