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Hormone Therapy, Suicidal Risk, and Transgender Youth in the United States

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  • Travis Campbell
  • Samuel Mann
  • Duc Hien Nguyen
  • Yana van der Meulen Rodgers

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This study uses the 2015 US Transgender Survey to test how initiation of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) affects the risk of attempting suicide among transgender individuals. We constructed a retrospective panel and employed a stacked event study design to demonstrate that HRT is associated with a substantially lower risk of suicide attempt. The average treatment effect on the treated is a decrease of 5.7 percentage points in the risk of ever attempting suicide if HRT is started between the ages of 14 and 17, which amounts to a 14.4 percent reduction in the risk of attempting suicide relative to the pretreatment mean.

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  • Travis Campbell & Samuel Mann & Duc Hien Nguyen & Yana van der Meulen Rodgers, 2023. "Hormone Therapy, Suicidal Risk, and Transgender Youth in the United States," AEA Papers and Proceedings, American Economic Association, vol. 113, pages 551-555, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:aea:apandp:v:113:y:2023:p:551-55
    DOI: 10.1257/pandp.20231057
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    JEL classification:

    • I12 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Behavior
    • J13 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
    • J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination

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