Although a relationship between marital status and mortality has long been recognized, no
summary estimates of the strength of the association are available. A meta-analysis of cohort …

Background Research has revealed mortality differences between marital status groups in
different societies and different periods of time. Due to the increase in consensual unions …

Sociological theories on family formation and families and health suggest that married and
cohabiting partners will resemble each other in health status, positively or negatively. The …

PURPOSE: We sought to assess whether the protective effect of marriage on overall and
cause-specific mortality has changed over time in a dynamic society. METHODS: Data from …

Discrete-time hazard regression models were employed to register and census data on 1.4
million Norwegian married couples from 1974-2001 to explore the probability of divorce …

In line with major demographic changes in other Northern European and North American
countries and Australia, being nonmarried is becoming increasingly common in Finland, and …

In diesem Beitrag wird der relative Anteil von Selektions-gegenüber Kausaleffekten bei den
Gesundheitsunterschieden zwischen Verheirateten und Ledigen untersucht. Mit den Daten …

This article, the first in a two-part series, features marriage within the transition to
parenthood. An overview of marriage and divorce is presented, along with how these two …

After the introduction in Section 2, we very briefly sketch out current theoretical and empirical
developments in the social sciences. In our view, they all point in the same direction: toward …

This study examines the relationship between marital status, antidepressant treatment
response, and the dynamics underlying differential responses between marital status …