Refining Estimates of Marital Status Differences in Mortality at Older Ages
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JEL classification:
- I12 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Behavior
- J14 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of the Elderly; Economics of the Handicapped; Non-Labor Market Discrimination
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DCM-1998-08-21 (Discrete Choice Models)
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