Climate, crime, and suicide: Empirical evidence from Japan

摘要: The relationship between climate change and violent behavior has been well documented in previous studies. Violence two dimensions: outward violence (i.e., crime) inward suicide). To our knowledge, rigorous empirical studies have not performed to investigate how affects both criminal suicidal behavior. This study aims estimate the effects of on crime suicide Japan by using prefecture-level monthly panel data climate, crime, 2009 2015. Even after controlling for prefecture, yearly, effects, we found that many factors affected Japan. In particular, more aggressive an increased number suicides were observed when average temperature increased. Furthermore, predicted changes will affect future patterns based scenarios.