The effect of relationship status on health with dynamic health and persistent relationships

•We propose a new method to estimate the effect of relationship status on health.•Our method incorporates the dynamic nature of health and persistence in relationship status.•Cohabitation is better than marriage for health after age 45.•Divorce harms the health of men under 45.•Unobservable heteroge...

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Volume:	36
Main Author:	Kohn, Jennifer L Averett, Susan L
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Zielgruppe:	Academic
Place of publication:	AMSTERDAM Elsevier B.V 01.07.2014 ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
published in:	Journal of health economics Vol. 36; pp. 69 - 83
Data of publication:	July 2014
ISSN:	0167-6296 1879-1646
EISSN:	1879-1646
Discipline:	Public Health Economics
Subjects:	Dynamic panel data Health and marriage Endogenous dummy variables Economics Social Sciences Life Sciences & Biomedicine Health Care Sciences & Services Business & Economics Health Policy & Services Science & Technology Models, Econometric Age Factors Humans Middle Aged Male Divorce - statistics & numerical data Divorce - economics Family Characteristics Single Person - statistics & numerical data Marital Status - statistics & numerical data Adult Female Health Status Interpersonal Relations Business education Analysis Health administration I1 Health and marriage J12 Dynamic panel data Endogenous dummy variables MORTALITY WOMEN MODELS HOUSEHOLD PANEL SURVEY MARITAL TRANSITIONS INSURANCE MARRIAGE VARIABLES SELECTION
Online Access:	available in Bonn?
Database:	Social Sciences Citation Index Web of Science - Social Sciences Citation Index - 2014 Web of Science - Science Citation Index Expanded - 2014 Web of Knowledge Science Citation Index Expanded Web of Science MEDLINE (Ovid) PubMed MEDLINE MEDLINE MEDLINE Medline CrossRef Academic OneFile (A&I only) MEDLINE - Academic Database information Databases - DBIS