Suicide is a major social problem. It is highly associated with the economic situation in any country. Unemployment is …. This paper attempts to close the gap between unemployment and suicide by estimating the role of unemployment on suicide … unemployment has a negative impact on suicide rate, while other factors such as divorce rate, age and regional location in the USA …

impact on the suicide index. It is attempted in this paper to examine econometrically the impact of unemployment and family … certain role. In other words, the stress of poverty (due to unemployment) and the family support (family ties) have their …

In this paper, we investigate the relationship between the unemployment rate and suicide rate using data from all … Endogeneity issues underbias the OLS results of the relationship between unemployment rates and suicide rates …-IV approach, we find that a 1 percentage point increase in the unemployment rate is associated with 0.72 and 0.68 higher …