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Economic distress and farmer suicides in India: an econometric investigation

This paper empirically analyzes sources of extreme economic distress in rural India. We use district-level data on farmers' suicides in two major states during the years 1998 to 2004 to estimate the effects of transitory economic shocks and structural change in agriculture on the incidence of s...

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Hauptverfasser: Hebous, Sarah (VerfasserIn) , Klonner, Stefan (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Heidelberg Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg 2014
Schriftenreihe:Discussion Paper Series / University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics 565
In: Discussion paper series (565)

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