Economists have for some time been aware that human beings reap financial benefits from marriage. Even after controlling for other factors, married individuals earn higher wages than single people (e.g. Chun and Lee (2001), Daniel (1995), Loh (1996), Reed and Harford (1989). There are gains, too, from economies of scale and specialisation within the family (Becker 1981). Yet economists are prob...

We assess (i) whether being married is a protective factor against socio-economic inequalities in suicide, and (ii) whether any such buffering effect varies between countries. We used the data from a European cross-national comparison project, a prospective follow-up of several European population censuses matched with vital statistics. The data encompass 99.5 million person-years aged 30 and a...

Previous research has shown marital status and marital quality are consistent predictors of health outcomes, including cardiovascular disease and mortality. To better understand the relationship among marital status, marital quality, and cardiovascular health, we examined how marital status and marital quality were associated with an early indicator of deteriorating cardiovascular health, high-...

Mirroring the civilian literature, military research has shown that married individuals tend to engage in fewer health risk behaviors, such as substance misuse, compared to individuals who were not married. These findings are consistent with the extensive civilian research literature documenting the physical and mental health advantage of being married, especially for men. However, few military...

Death rates from coronary heart disease (CHD) for persons aged 25 years and over are higher for the divorced, widowed, or the never-married than for persons who are currently married (Table I). This is true regardless of colour, and though there is some variation of this excess risk with age (e.g., white never-married women aged 55-64 and 65-74 have almost the same rates as white married women)...

For modern Western societies with a regime of monogamy, it has recently been demonstrated that the socioeconomic status of men is positively associated with being or having been married. This study aims to compare marriage patterns (if a person has been married at least once) for cultures with a tradition of monogamy and polygyny. As no worldwide data on polygyny exist, religion was used as a p...

OBJECTIVES A beneficial effect of being married on survival has been shown for several cancer types, but is unclear for oesophageal cancer. The objective of this study was to clarify the potential influence of the marital status on the overall and disease-specific survival after curatively intended treatment of oesophageal cancer using a nationwide population-based design, taking into account t...