Suicide rates for adolescents have doubled since 1970 and tripled since 1960, even as rates for other age groups have declined. Using a Becker-type model of household production and consumption, we demonstrate conditions under which utility maximizing parents allocate time away from...

This article uses recent developments in change-point analysis to demonstrate that stronger income growth rates previously associated with state bank branch deregulation were in all cases temporary rather than permanent. In addition, patterns of temporal ordering across regions suggest that in...