Rationale Couples-based interventions to facilitate health behavior change and improve
disease outcomes are gaining attention from researchers. Dyadic research, however, poses …

In this chapter, we discuss the patterns and causes of men's health behaviors and physical
health outcomes. We begin by discussing men's patterns of smoking, alcohol use, substance …

Background A comprehensive depiction of long-term health impacts of marital status is
lacking. Methods Sex-stratified phenome-wide association analyses (PheWAS) of marital …

Objective: Wives increasingly outearn their husbands, and gender relations theory suggests
this arrangement may undermine men's well-being. We explore how long-term histories of …

In most parts of the world, health outcomes among boys and men continue to be
substantially worse than among girls and women, yet this gender-based disparity in health …

Introduction Emerging literature links fatherhood to men's health but lacks comprehensive
assessment of health outcomes, especially among multiethnic populations. This study's …

This study investigates how women's and men's fertility history affect their health in later life
and if this relationship varies across countries and cohorts. We use life history data and …

Amid national trends in postponed parenthood and more diverse family structures, the
fatherhood identity may be important to men's sexual behaviors. This study examined factors …

This article investigates whether and how having a child impacts an individual's subjective
well-being, while taking into account heterogeneity in family attitudes. People with different …

Testosterone (T) is thought to help facilitate trade-offs between mating and parenting in
humans. Across diverse cultural settings married men and fathers have lower T than other …