Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/161382 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 10759
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
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.
Subjects: 
happiness
aging
suicide
well-being
GHQ
mental-health
depression
life-course
JEL: 
I12
I31
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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