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The political economy of farmers’ suicides in India: indebted cash-crop farmers with marginal landholdings explain state-level variation in suicide rates

Overview of attention for article published in Globalization and Health, March 2014
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#46 of 1,231)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (98th percentile)
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11 X users
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4 Wikipedia pages
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Title
The political economy of farmers’ suicides in India: indebted cash-crop farmers with marginal landholdings explain state-level variation in suicide rates
Published in
Globalization and Health, March 2014
DOI 10.1186/1744-8603-10-16
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Authors

Jonathan Kennedy, Lawrence King

Abstract

A recent Lancet article reported the first reliable estimates of suicide rates in India. National-level suicide rates are among the highest in the world, but suicide rates vary sharply between states and the causes of these differences are disputed. We test whether differences in the structure of agricultural production explain inter-state variation in suicides rates. This hypothesis is supported by a large number of qualitative studies, which argue that the liberalization of the agricultural sector in the early-1990s led to an agrarian crisis and that consequently farmers with certain socioeconomic characteristics-cash crops cultivators, with marginal landholdings, and debts-are at particular risk of committing suicide. The recent Lancet study, however, contends that there is no evidence to support this hypothesis.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 2 1%
Unknown 143 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 26 18%
Student > Master 18 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 15 10%
Researcher 14 10%
Student > Bachelor 8 6%
Other 22 15%
Unknown 42 29%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 30 21%
Medicine and Dentistry 13 9%
Psychology 10 7%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 8 6%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 7 5%
Other 34 23%
Unknown 43 30%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 96. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 14 May 2022.
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#444,579
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#46
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#3,790
of 238,250 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Globalization and Health
#1
of 28 outputs
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