This review summarizes recent research in four environmental areas affecting risk of deaths
by suicide. Politically, the weight of the evidence suggests that laws increasing social …

Suicide is the 15th leading cause of death worldwide, with over 75% of suicides occurring in
low-income and middle-income countries. Nonetheless, evidence on the association …

In The Great Escape, published in 2013, one of us told a positive story about human
progress over the last two hundred and fifty years. The story there was one of previously …

This paper characterizes the link between ambient temperatures and a broad set of mental
health outcomes. We find that higher temperatures increase emergency department visits for …

More than three quarters of the world's suicides occur in develo** countries, yet little is
known about the drivers of suicidal behavior in poor populations. I study India, where one …

Patients with serious illnesses or injuries may decide to quit their medical treatment if they
think paying the fees will put their families into destitution. Without treatment, it is likely that …

We examine how deaths and emergency department (ED) visits related to use of opioid
analgesics (opioids) and other drugs vary with macroeconomic conditions. As the county …

This study investigates the relationship between economic conditions and health. Total
mortality and eight of the ten sources of fatalities examined are shown to exhibit a procyclical …

I got involved in studying the economics of beauty in a curi‑ous way. Early in 1993, I noticed
that the data I was using on another research project included interviewers' ratings of the …

The paper investigates whether there is a connection between poverty or low education and
terrorism. We review evidence on hate crimes, which are closely related to terrorism; the …