economics, psychology, policy

The current macroeconomic and financial crisis provides quite a natural experiment, much as the oil crisis on the early 1970s did for an old...

Brendan Walsh, Dermot Walsh In this paper we model the behaviour of the Irish suicide rate over the period 1968‐2009 using the unemployment...

A recent publication in the European Journal of Public Health might be of interest to you. This research examines CSO data from 1996 to 200...

The pdf of the report referred to by Kevin is below. It contains very valuable information on time trends, age composition, methods of suici...

This story from RTE provides welcome news that the suicide rate has fallen. It contains the following remark "Today's report shows ...

Another paper on the macro determinants of suicide: Does unemployment increase suicide rates? The OECD panel evidence Yong-Hwan Noh Prev...

Mary Daly and Daniel Wilson have written a number of papers about the economics of suicide. If you look at Figure 1 in their paper below ...

SEMINAR Speaker: Professor Antonio Rodriquez, Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, Spain. Title: Socioeconomic differences in suicide risk amo...

The Easterlin Paradox is fundamental to the argument that focusing on material well-being does not promote overall well-being beyond a certa...