Youth Suicides Are Closely Tied With In-Person School Attendance

“The findings of this study suggest that youth suicides are closely tied with in-person school attendance.”

In-Person Schooling and Youth Suicide: Evidence from School Calendars and Pandemic School Closures | NBER

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Suicidology update: School closures & Child suicide

These economists *really* analyse the data in technical ways to demonstrate the key point i made way back:

Child suicide dropped tremendously when "school shutdowns highest," & increased when schools opened

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This looks like another important paper on schooling during the pandemic. The authors find that in-person schooling was associated with MORE teen suicides. I have something to read on my flight now.https://t.co/jn7OHeh5pZ pic.twitter.com/HBUWvp5Yue

— Alvin Christian (@_AlvinChristian) December 26, 2022

People who follow me are used to this data, of course, but they ran it statistically to correspond at the county level to foot traffic, school foot traffic, seasonality, and in a number of covariates like race and method.

they posit a bullying/school stress hypothesis

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The net effect until the last possible month we can measure (May 2022)?

https://twitter.com/tylerblack32/status/1600588509894836224

Child suicides:

• have not increased since the pandemic
• decreased sharply during the period of strongest school closures
• are strongly associated with school attendance

Originally tweeted by Tyler Black, MD (@tylerblack32) on December 26, 2022.