Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/33438 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 1619
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
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.
Subjects: 
mortality
health
marriage
happiness
longitudinal
JEL: 
I0
I12
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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