%0 Report
        %A Oswald, Andrew J.
%A Tohamy, Ahmed
        %T Female Suicide and the Concept of the Midlife Crisis
        %D 2017
        %8 2017 May
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 10759
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp10759
        %X 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. 
        %K happiness
%K aging
%K suicide
%K well-being
%K GHQ
%K mental-health
%K depression
%K life-course