Fig 1.
The districts where LTTE claimed as Tamil Eelam.
The figure illustrates the districts which LTTE claimed as Tamil Eelam as of June 2006. (Source: [29]) These territories were almost stable during the sample period of 2000–2006.
Fig 2.
The average suicide rate by districts.
The figures show the average suicide rate from 1955 to 1980 (Panel A) and from 2000 to 2009 (Panel B). (Source: [22, 23], Statistics on Vital Events 2000–2010).
Fig 3.
Trends in suicide rate of contested and non-contested districts.
The figure shows the trend of average suicide rate in the pre-war (1970–1980), the war (2000–2009) and the post-war (2010 and 2013) periods for the contested and non-contested districts. (Source: [22, 23], Statistics on Vital Events 2000–2010 and Vital Statistics Report).
Table 1.
Suicide rates (pre-war vs. wartime periods, contested vs. non-contested districts).
Fig 4.
Trends of grievous hurts and homicide at the national level.
The figure shows the trend of grievous hurts and homicide at the national level. It includes the pre-war (1948–1982), the war (1983–2009), and the post-war (2010–2015) periods. (Source: Statistical Abstract).
Table 2.
Summary statistics of the covariates.
Table 3.
Difference-in-difference approach to the relationship between the civil war and suicide rate (main analysis).
Table 4.
Difference-in-difference approach to the relationship between the civil war and suicide rate (the ceasefire agreement in 2002).
Table 5.
Difference-in-difference approach to the relationship between the civil war and suicide rate (omitting districts where the enumeration was difficult).
Table 6.
Regression analysis of the relationship between the civil war and suicide rate (intensity of conflict).
Table 7.
Difference-in-difference approach to the relationship between the civil war and suicide rate (spatial autoregressive model).
Table 8.
Spatial difference-in-difference approach to the relationship between the civil war and suicide rate.
Table 9.
Regression analysis of the relationship between the civil war and suicide rate (ethnicity).
Fig 5.
Trend in suicide rate adjusted for the effect of the civil war and district-specific heterogeneities.
The figure shows the potential suicide rate measured as the estimates of year fixed effects of (1) in Table 3. The suicide rate in 1955 is set to be zero. (Source: author’s calculation).
Fig 6.
Suicide rate adjusted for the effect of the civil war and year-specific heterogeneities.
The figure shows the potential suicide rate measured as the estimates of district fixed effects of (1) in Table 3. The suicide rate in Colombo is set to be zero. (Source: Author’s calculation).