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Is it Money or Marriage that Keeps People Alive?

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  • Oswald, Andrew

    (University of Warwick)

  • Jonathan Gardner

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It is believed that the length of a person's life depends on a mixture of economic and social factors. Yet the relative importance of these is still debated. We provide evidence in this paper that marriage has a much more important (positive) effect on longevity than high income does. For men, it almost exactly offsets the large negative effect of smoking. Economics, however, plays little or no role. After controlling for health at the start of the 1990s, we find no reliable evidence that income affects the probability of death over the subsequent decade.

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Paper provided by Royal Economic Society in its series Royal Economic Society Annual Conference 2003 with number 161.

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Date of creation: 04 Jun 2003
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Handle: RePEc:ecj:ac2003:161

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Keywords: mortality; health; income; marriage;

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  1. Nattavudh Powdthavee, 2004. "Testing for Utility Interdependence in Marriage: Evidence from Panel Data," Labor and Demography 0403037, EconWPA, revised 01 Apr 2004.
  2. Adeline Delavande & Michael Perry & Robert Willis, 2006. "Probabilistic Thinking and Early Social Security Claiming," Working Papers wp129, University of Michigan, Michigan Retirement Research Center.

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