@article{ref1,
title="COVID-19 and suicides in the United States: an early empirical assessment",
journal="SN business and economics",
year="2022",
author="Ruiz Sánchez, Gerardo",
volume="2",
number="7",
pages="e68-e68",
abstract="2017-2020 data from Medical Examiner Offices of 19 large U.S. counties are collected to study how suicides evolved during the early stage of the COVID-19 pandemic. I use these data to obtain three key findings. First, I document that the total number of suicides per month was increasing during the early months of the pandemic but was below previous years' levels. Second, using a monthly event study design to account for seasonal trends and county-level differences in suicides, I find that during April through August 2020, monthly suicides were between 11.2 and 20.5% lower than previous years. Third, I explore whether school closures during the start of the pandemic might be associated with suicides among school-age individuals, and I find that monthly suicides increased relative to previous years for this age group, with the highest increases during the summer. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s43546-022-00235-0.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2662-9399",
doi="10.1007/s43546-022-00235-0",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s43546-022-00235-0"
}