Suicide is a leading cause of death worldwide and a critical public health concern. We examine the hypothesis of suicide contagion within in the workplace, investigating whether exposure to a coworker's suicide increases an individual's suicide risk. Using high-quality administrative data from...

East Asia is undergoing a rapid demographic transition and "super" aging. As a result of steadily decreasing fertility and increasing life expectancy, older people's proportion of the population and the old-age dependency ratio is rising across all countries in East Asia, particularly in the...

This paper reports socio-economic and health outcomes for intersex people in Mexico using data collected between 2021 and 2022. This is the first study relying on a large nationally representative survey including information on sex variations to document substantial negative outcomes for...

Advancing the economic understanding of suicide's externalities, this study uses the well-being valuation method (WVM) to quantify the exposure to suicide, specifically through knowing someone near, family, or friend (NFF) who attempted or died by suicide. First, using data from a survey of...

Though there is clinical evidence linking pollution induced inflammatory factors and major depression and suicide, no definitive study of risk in the community exists. In this study, we provide the first population-based estimates of the relationship between air pollution and suicide in the...

This paper documents a longitudinal crisis of midlife among the inhabitants of rich nations. Yet middle-aged citizens in our data sets are close to their peak earnings, have typically experienced little or no illness, reside in some of the safest countries in the world, and live in the most...

East Asia is undergoing a rapid demographic transition and "super" aging. As a result of steadily decreasing fertility and increasing life expectancy, older people's proportion of the population and the old-age dependency ratio is rising across all countries in East Asia, particularly in the...

Suicide is a leading cause of death worldwide and a critical public health concern. We examine the hypothesis of suicide contagion within in the workplace, investigating whether exposure to a coworker's suicide increases an individual's suicide risk. Using high-quality administrative data from...

This paper reports socio-economic and health outcomes for intersex people in Mexico using data collected between 2021 and 2022. This is the first study relying on a large nationally representative survey including information on sex variations to document substantial negative outcomes for...

We revisit the effect of gun laws on suicide rates in the US states in the past 30 years by departing from the correlational analysis inherent in the previous literature and, instead, leveraging an instrumental variable (IV) approach based on policy convergences between contiguous states. The...

Suicide is a leading cause of death worldwide and a critical public health concern. We examine the hypothesis of suicide contagion within the workplace, investigating whether exposure to a coworker’s suicide increases an individual’s suicide risk. Using high-quality administrative data from...

Suicide is a leading cause of death worldwide and a critical public health concern. We examine the hypothesis of suicide contagion within the workplace, investigating whether exposure to a coworker's suicide increases an individual's suicide risk. Using high-quality administrative data from...

Objectives To investigate the current literature on healthcare policies and cost analyses around international Volun- tary Assisted Dying (VAD) laws. The study design is a mapping literature review following Preferred-Reporting-Items- for-Systematic-Reviews-and-Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines....

We examine whether increases in Medicaid coverage among teens reduced suicide risk. Youth are at elevated risk for depression but receive the least care. We exploit state-level variation in Medicaid coverage controlling for crowd-out to identify effects on risk for suicide. We build an...

We study the mental health of PhD students in Sweden using comprehensive administrative data on prescriptions, specialist care visits, hospitalizations, and causes of death. We find about 7% (5%) of PhD students receive medication or diagnosis for depression (anxiety) in a given year. These...

The existing body of work on suicide has characterised it as a choice opted by an individual who is neurologically disturbed. Adam Smith himself has supported this notion in his book ‘Theory of Moral Sentiment’. However David Hume in his treatise ‘Of Suicide’ has described it as a...

Recent works in mainstream economic literature have attempted to explain social problems such as suicide and drug use among workers as a consequence of income loss, job loss, status loss, and alienation. This last concept is important in the Marxist tradition, so much so that Marx and Engels...

Marriage is protective against suicide across most populations, including for persons of different ethnicities and immigrant backgrounds. However, the well-being benefits of marriage are contingent upon marital characteristics—such as conflict and quality—that may vary across spousal dyads...

This article investigates how the Swedish population values a reduction in the number of suicides in relation to other life-saving interventions within the health care sector. An online discrete choice experiment was conducted with a sample of 1000 Swedish members of the web panel Userneeds to...

These individuals are known for their hard work, patience, resilience. They wear less, toils their sweat, work more with minimal infrastructure, gambles with monsoons, and gives their best to see everybody in the country is fed. They by their perseverance raised the India from food deficit...

Mental health problems among the elderly have attracted increasing attention. The most serious mental health problems may result in suicide, and lack of family companionship is often speculated to be a major cause. In this paper, we use high-frequency suicide rate data and utilize a novel...

We conduct the first-ever large-scale study of the relationship between air pollution and suicide using detailed cause of death data from all death certificates in the U.S. between 2003 and 2010. Using wind direction as an instrument for daily pollution exposure, we find that a 1 μg/m3 increase...

Agriculture is the India’s culture since time immemorial. Even today, Agriculture is a way of life and the principle source of livelihood for more than 52% of its population (Economic Survey 2009-10). Hence agriculture plays a key role in the overall economic and social well being of the...

We study the mental health of PhD students in Sweden using comprehensive administrative data on prescriptions, specialist care visits, hospitalizations, and causes of death. We find about 7% (5%) of PhD students receive medication or diagnosis for depression (anxiety) in a given year. These...

This study investigates the effect of discrimination in the labor market on suicidal ideation among Korean women. Using the 7th wave of the Korean Longitudinal Survey of Women and Family (KLoWF) with 3,305 samples aged 20 and over, this paper tests the relationship between labor market...

This note investigates the empirical pattern of suicides across Italy over the last 15 years. Typically, a country shares similar basic cultural and social macro-features. Yet in Italy there are marked variations across the regions such that it provides a useful setting to examine the economic...

This note investigates the empirical pattern of suicides across Italy over the last 15 years. Typically, a country shares similar basic cultural and social macro-features. Yet in Italy there are marked variations across the regions such that it provides a useful setting to examine the economic...

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) exerts lifelong impairment, including difficulty sustaining employment, poor credit, and suicide risk. To date, however, studies have assessed selected samples, often via self-report. Using mental health data from the entire Swedish population (N =...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part I - Defining Work-Related Suicide -- Chapter 2. Defining occupational suicide: Insights from the France Telecom suicides on financialization and the disintegration of social solidarity -- Chapter 3. The role of stress and burnout in occupational suicide -- Chapter...