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The Protective Effect of Marriage for Survival: A Review and Update.

The theory that marriage has protective effects for survival has itself lived for more than 100 years since Durkheim's groundbreaking study of suicide (Durkheim 1951 [1897]). Investigations of differences in this protective effect by gender, by age, and in contrast to different unmarried statuses, h...

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Published in:Demography Vol. 48; no. 2; pp. 481 - 507
Main Authors: Rendall, Michael S., Weden, Margaret M., Favreault, Melissa M., Waldron, Hilary
Format: Article
Published: Springer Science & Business Media B.V. May 2011
Subjects:
Married people
Mortality
Marital status
Marriage
United States
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