Marital Disruption and Mortality

Lee Lillard and Linda Waite ()

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Abstract: Both men and women appear to benefit from being married. This article uses data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to examine the extent to which three key factors- financial well-being, living arrangements and marital history - account for this relationship.

Keywords: MARIAGE; MORTALITY (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J10 J12 J16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25 pages
Date: 1996
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