Data and Code for: Hormone Therapy, Suicidal Risk, and Transgender Youth in the U.S.

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Travis Campbell, Southern Oregon University; Samuel Mann, Vanderbilt University, Global Labour Organization; Duc Hien Nguyen, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Yana van der Muelen Rodgers, Rutgers University

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Project Citation:

Campbell, Travis, Mann, Samuel, Nguyen, Duc Hien, and Rodgers, Yana van der Muelen. Data and Code for: Hormone Therapy, Suicidal Risk, and Transgender Youth in the U.S. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2023. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2023-04-27. https://doi.org/10.3886/E188761V1

Project Description

Summary: This study uses the 2015 U.S. 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 started between the ages of 14 and 17, which amounts to a 14.4% reduction in the risk of attempting suicide relative to the pretreatment mean.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: Gender-affirming care; hormone therapy; mental health

JEL Classification:
      I14 Health and Inequality
      I18 Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
      I31 General Welfare; Well-Being
      J15 Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination

Geographic Coverage: United States

Collection Date(s): 2015 – 2015 (Summer 2015)

Data Type(s): survey data

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