TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Oswald, Andrew J.
AU  - Tohamy, Ahmed
        TI  - Female Suicide and the Concept of the Midlife Crisis
        PY  - 2017/May/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 10759
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp10759
        AB  - 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. 
        KW  - happiness
KW  - aging
KW  - suicide
KW  - well-being
KW  - GHQ
KW  - mental-health
KW  - depression
KW  - life-course
        ER  -