Income shocks and suicides: causal evidence from Indonesia

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 ra...

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Hlavní autoři: Christian, C, Hensel, L, Roth, C
Médium: Journal article
Jazyk:English
Vydáno: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press 2018