How Does Marriage Affect Physical and Psychological Health? A Survey of the Longitudinal Evidence

This paper examines an accumulating modern literature on the health benefits of relationships like marriage. Although much remains to be understood about the physiological channels, we draw the judgment, after looking across many journals and disciplines, that there is persuasive longitudinal evidence for such effects. The size of the health gain from marriage is remarkable. It may be as large as the benefit from giving up smoking.

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Year of publication:	2005-05
Authors:	Wilson, Chris M. ; Oswald, Andrew J.
Institutions:	Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Subject:	mortality \| health \| marriage \| happiness \| longitudinal

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	IZA Discussion Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	Number 1619 32 pages
Classification:	I0 - Health, Education, and Welfare. General ; I12 - Health Production: Nutrition, Mortality, Morbidity, Substance Abuse and Addiction, Disability, and Economic Behavior
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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