Teen Suicide and the Outcomes of Surviving Peers

We are grateful to Kosali Simon as well as seminar and conference participants at the American Society of Health Economists, Gothenburg, ITAM, NBER Children, the Triangle Applied Microeconomics Conference, and Tinbergen. Asenat Mantovani provided outstanding research assistance. Janet Currie thanks the NOMIS Foundation and the Jacobs Foundation for financial support. We are also grateful to the Princeton Industrial Relations Section for financial support. We thank Sarah Crawford and Kaowao Strickland for help fulfilling data requests. This paper uses information from the records of the South Carolina Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Office, Health and Demographics Division. Their authorization to release this information does not imply endorsement of this study or its findings by either the Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Office or the data owners. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.