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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| Natura: | Journal article |
| Lingua: | English |
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press
2018
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