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Christian, Cornelius, Hensel, Lukas and Roth, Christopher (2019) Income shocks and suicides : causal evidence from Indonesia. The Review of Economics and Statistics, 101 (5). pp. 905-920. doi:10.1162/rest_a_00777 ISSN 0034-6535.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_00777
Abstract
We examine how income shocks affect the suicide rate in Indonesia. We use a difference-in-differences approach, exploiting the cash transfer's nationwide roll-out, and corroborate the findings using a randomized experiment. Our estimates show that the cash transfers reduce the yearly suicide rate by 0.36 per 100,000 people, corresponding to an 18 percent decrease. Moreover, a different type of income shock, variability in agricultural productivity, also affects the suicide rate. The cash transfer program reduces the causal impact of the agricultural productivity shocks, suggesting an important role for policy interventions. Finally, we provide evidence for depression as a psychological mechanism.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | The Review of Economics and Statistics | ||||||
| Publisher: | MIT Press | ||||||
| ISSN: | 0034-6535 | ||||||
| Official Date: | December 2019 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 101 | ||||||
| Number: | 5 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 905-920 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1162/rest_a_00777 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | Author’s final version, this article has been accepted for publication in The Review of Economics and Statistics | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
| Copyright Holders: | © 2018 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology | ||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 5 July 2019 | ||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 5 July 2019 |
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