caa a22 4500 477055338 CHVBK 20180405111345.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19960801xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/2061764 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.2307/2061764 Marital status and mortality: The role of health [Elektronische Daten] [Lee Lillard, Constantijn Panis] Prior literature has shown that married men live longer than unmarried men. Possible explanations are that marriage protects its incumbents or that healthier men select themselves into marriage. Protective effects, however, introduce the possibility of adverse selection: Those in poor health have an incentive to marry. In this paper we explore the role of health in explaining mortality and marriage patterns, and distinguish protective effects from two types of selection effects. We find adverse selection on the basis of health (unhealthy men tend to (re)marry sooner) and positive selection on the basis of unmeasured factors that both promote good health and encourage marriage. Population Association of America, 1996 Lillard Lee Center for the Study of Aging, RAND, 1700 Main Street, 90407-2138, Santa Monica, CA aut Panis Constantijn Associate Economist, RAND, USA aut Demography Springer-Verlag 33/3(1996-08-01), 313-327 0070-3370 33:3<313 1996 33 13524 https://doi.org/10.2307/2061764 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/2061764 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Lillard Lee Center for the Study of Aging, RAND, 1700 Main Street, 90407-2138, Santa Monica, CA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Panis Constantijn Associate Economist, RAND, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Demography Springer-Verlag 33/3(1996-08-01), 313-327 0070-3370 33:3<313 1996 33 13524 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer