Suicide and property rights in India

☆ Genicot is grateful to the Development Research Gro warm hospitality during the writing of a first draft of thi the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research for financial assistancewas appreciated.We thank Patrick Francois, Elia comments, as well as seminar participants at Bocconi Un Population Research Center, the World Bank DECRG and I ⁎ Correspondence to: Vancouver School of Economics an ⁎⁎ Correspondence to: Georgetown University, USA (G. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (S. Anderso (G. Genicot). 1 The estimated rate of increase is more than 40%. More suggest that annual suicide rates could be six to nine tim Vijayakumar, 2010). 2 India is second only to China in terms of total numbe male mortality rates from this cause are high in both the regions. Refer to Anderson and Ray (2010) for an analysis o ferent ages by cause of death in China and India. 3 The estimated rate of increase is more than 40%. More suggest that annual suicide rates could be six to nine tim Vijayakumar, 2010).