We examine the economic and social determinants of suicide mortality in a panel of 25 OECD countries over the period … large body of literature our results suggest that unemployment increases suicide mortality, while real economic growth tends … strict employment protection regulations have a positive influence on suicide mortality. These findings indicate that labor …

mortality from alcohol poisoning, drug overdose and suicide. We investigate whether these "deaths of despair" trends have been … overdose deaths and suicides, using data on cause-specific mortality rates from 1999-2015. Our causal models find no …Midlife mortality has risen steadily in the U.S. since the 1990s for non-Hispanic whites without a bachelor's degree …

Weekly mortality through October 3 is partitioned into normal deaths, COVID, and nonCOVID excess deaths (NCEDs). Before …, suicide, alcohol) in 2017 and 2018 are good predictors of the demographic groups with NCEDs in 2020. The NCEDs are …

This paper estimates the effect of alcohol consumption on mortality using the minimum drinking age in a regression … alcohol consumption results in a discrete 9 percent increase in the mortality rate at age 21. The overall increase in deaths … overdoses and alcohol-related deaths, and a 15 percent increase in suicides. Combining the reduced-form estimates reveals that a …

We investigate the impact of a large economic shock on mortality. We find that counties more exposed to a plausibly … exogenous trade liberalization exhibit higher rates of suicide and related causes of death, concentrated among whites …