“We must acquire a life style which has as its goal maximum freedom and happiness for the
individual, not a maximum Gross National Product.”(Nordhaus and Tobin 1973) The above …

National Violent Death Reporting System data from 32 states were used to calculate suicide
rates for major industry and occupational groups and detailed occupational groups. Five …

We show that psychological well-being in adulthood varies with circumstance in early life.
Combining a time series of real producer prices of cocoa with a nationally representative …

2012 and 2015 National Violent Death Reporting System data from 17 states indicated the
major occupational group with the highest male suicide rate was Construction and …

Five studies provide converging evidence for the joint effect of perceived economic mobility
and socioeconomic status (SES) on compensatory behavior, such that low SES consumers …

Introduction The suicide rate in the US has been increasing in recent years. Previous studies
have consistently identified financial stress as a contributing factor in suicides. Nevertheless …

This paper considers some of the implications of the increase in UK unemployment since the
beginning of the Great Recession. The major finding is that the sharp increase in …

The suicide rate among the US working-age population has increased approximately 33%
during the last 2 decades. To guide suicide prevention strategies, CDC analyzed suicide …

We examine how income shocks affect the suicide rate in Indonesia. We use a difference-in-
differences approach, exploiting the cash transfer's nationwide rollout, and corroborate the …

There is enough evidence to be confident that individuals are able and willing to provide a
meaningful answer when asked to value on a finite scale their satisfaction with their own …