Suicide has long history dating back to the earliest historical records of humankind. Currently, the number of people … committing suicide around the world is not negligible. In 2010, almost one million people committed suicide, which corresponds to … a mortality rate of 16 per 100,000 people. There are also significant numbers of suicide attempts for every completed …

Is there a rational component in the decision to commit suicide? Economists have been trying to shed light on this … question by studying whether suicide rates are related to contemporaneous conditions. This paper goes one step further: we test … pardons to measure changes in the inmates' expectations about the length of their sentences, and find that suicide rates tend …

, however has not been identified empirically. I suggest that employment during adolescence promotes the formation of character …

(non-significant with IV). Our findings begin to explain mechanisms by which caregivers experience wage penalties. Building …