Marital status and mortality: The role of health

Demography

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 313-327

  Lillard, Lee A ^a   Panis, Constantijn W A ^b  

^a RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^b RAND

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; DECISION MAKING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSALITY; CHILD; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LINEAR MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MARITAL STATUS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0030203632     PISSN: 00703370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2061764     Document Type: Article

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