Girls are at a disadvantage in other ways, too, and have a higher drop-out rate than boys.
The drop-out rate in the district is more than twice the state average.
But among the children of Hispanic immigrants, the drop-out rate is much lower.
Such a drop-out rate has its roots in the earliest years of school, when under-performing students are pushed through the system.
The high-school drop-out rate, for example, would fall only from 17.3% to 16.1%, and the proportion of teenage mothers from 20% to 18%.
But because of a high drop-out rate, and its failure to meet student recruitment targets, South Bank has been obliged to cut academic jobs, and give back some of its grant to the Higher Education Funding Council for England, the primary government funding agency for universities.
It should fall steadily next year, as this year's VAT and energy-price increases drop out of the annual rate, reaching the 2% target by December, says Simon Hayes of Barclays Capital.
And students with disabilities drop out of school at twice the rate of their able-bodied peers.
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However, he pointed out that "a lot of the drop in the unemployment rate comes down to a decline in the size of the labour force, which is quite large".
Nearly half of the 3m people who enroll in university in America drop out within six years (among wealthy countries, only Italy has a worse rate).
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Expanded unemployment-insurance benefits encourage some workers to keep looking for a job rather than drop out of the workforce altogether, adding perhaps half a percentage point to the unemployment rate, according to the Fed.
If there's a silver lining to Stuckler's findings, it's that a drop in traffic deaths appears to have canceled out the impact of the added suicides on the overall mortality rate of the countries.
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