Happiness, Life satisfaction, Relative deprivation, Inequality, Income, Transition economies, Market economy,

In this article, we analyze how the marital biography is affecting mortality in Germany today (N ¼ 12,484). We find support for temporal selection into marriage for both genders, but the effect is stronger for men. In addition, protection through marriage results from long-term accumulation of survival advantages and from the attenuation of higher mortality risks that occur immediately after a transition into or out of a marriage. Moreover, women are more likely to keep survival advantages from previous marriages and to forget about survival disadvantages from divorces and widowhood.In 1830, Benoisten de Chateauneuf observed a difference in life expectancy between married and unmarried people. Since then, numerous studies have confirmed this result within many

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