Suicide is a major cause of preventable death. Restricting access to lethal means has been identified as an effective … approach to suicide prevention, and firearms regulations are one way to reduce gun availability. This study examines the … relationship between state firearms regulations and suicide among males, using negative binomial regression and state panel data …

and suicide from the medical that is often used for public policy advocacy. This result is, unfortunately, heavily biased …

We provide the first quasi-experimental estimates of variation in suicide impulsivity by age by examining the impact of … robustness of our results. We find that purchase delay laws reduce firearm suicide for the overall adult population, but this … relationship between purchase delay laws and firearm suicide reduction weakens with age and is not driven by gun ownership rates …

provided by the Furman and Gregg decisions and assess the relationship between execution and homicide rates in state panel data … cannot be reliably disentangled from the large year-to-year changes in the homicide rate caused by other factors. As such …

-assisted suicide leave much to be desired. Although this topic has been beaten to death in the literature, the vast majority of … in these cases. Basically, suicide is a property rights issue and physician-assisted suicide is a contract rights issue …

share of the richest 10 percent affect homicide or suicide rates. …

that school holidays cause an 19 percent (0.03 percentage points) decrease in the probability of youth suicide. This effect … find evidence of a spike in suicide propensity in the first two days following the end of school holidays. The results are … that school holidays have a beneficial impact on the well-being of students and that suicide prevention efforts are …

-being literature and a matching hill-shape in especially female suicide risk (evident in 28 countries and visible in the United States …