His, her, or their divorce? Marital dissolution and sickness absence in Norway

Journal of Marriage and Family

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 461-479

  Dahl, Svenn Åge ^a   Hansen, Hans Tore ^a,b   Vignes, Bo ^a,b  

^a Institute for Research in Economics and Business Administration   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Dissolution; Family stress and or crisis; Health and illness; Longitudinal; Marriage; Panel studies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923930571     PISSN: 00222445     EISSN: 17413737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jomf.12166     Document Type: Article

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