@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp10759, author={Oswald, Andrew J. and Tohamy, Ahmed}, title={Female Suicide and the Concept of the Midlife Crisis}, year={2017}, month={May}, institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)}, address={Bonn}, type={IZA Discussion Paper}, number={10759}, url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp10759}, abstract={The idea that humans – especially females – are prone to some form of 'midlife crisis' has typically been viewed with extreme skepticism by social scientists. We point out the potential equivalence between an age U-shape in a new well-being literature and a matching hill-shape in especially female suicide risk (evident in 28 countries and visible in the United States even 30 years ago). This concordance between two currently separate kinds of evidence, including a result on non-human primates, is apparently not known to many researchers or public commentators. It may be necessary to reconsider traditional thinking on the midlife crisis. }, keywords={happiness;aging;suicide;well-being;GHQ;mental-health;depression;life-course}, }