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Mortality Differentials by Marital Status: An International Comparison
Abstract
Although the greater longevity of married people as compared with unmarried persons has been demonstrated repeatedly, there have been very few studies of a comparative nature. We use log-linear rate models to analyze marital-status-specific death rates for a large number of developed countries. The results indicate that divorced persons, especially divorced men, have the highest death rates among the unmarried groups of the respective genders; the excess mortality of unmarried persons relative to the married has been generally increasing over the past two to three decades; and divorced and widowed persons in their twenties and thirties have particularly high risks of dying, relative to married persons of the same age. In addition, the analysis suggests that a selection process is operating with regard to single and divorced persons: the smaller the proportion of persons who never marry or who are divorced, the higher the resulting death rates.
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- Authors
- Hu, Y., & Goldman, N.
- Venue
- Demography
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Published
- 1990-05-01
- Volume
- 27
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 233-250
- ISSN
- 0070-3370 (ISSN-L)
- 1533-7790
- OpenAlex
- W1987633700
- Cited by
- 614
- References
- 17
- FWCI
- 29.17
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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