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Many studies demonstrated protective effects of marriage on health, but studies on the reverse pathway are more limited and provided mixed findings. Using large-scale data from annual longitudinal panel surveys, the current paper estimates discrete-time event-history models to analyze how self-rated health affects transitions in and out of marriage and cohabitation. Harmonized panel data are used for Australia, Germany, (South) Korea, Russia, Switzerland, and the UK. The study finds adverse effects of poor self-rated health on all transitions: union formation, marriage formation, separation, divorce, and repartnering. Effects were smaller for the formation than for the dissolution of unions and smaller for the transition to cohabitation than to marriage. Few gender differences were found but health effects on union dissolution declined with age. With exceptions, the impact of health was strikingly similar across the six countries. In general, the findings suggest an accumulation of health-related inequalities in the marriage market
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https://matthijskalmijn.nl/onewebmedia/24-0458.R2.Kalmijn.Maindoc_ASA_format.pdf
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Forthcoming
Code: This paper uses the code from the Comparative Panel File (CPF) version 1.5 available at www.cpfdata.com created by Konrad Turek, Matthijs Kalmijn, Thomas Leopold, and Isabel Voets. The project was supported by the NORFACE Joint Research Programme on the Dynamics of Inequality Across the Life‐course. DOI:10.17605/OSF.IO/H3YXQ. The project aims to support the social science community in the analysis of comparative life course data. The project is designed as an open-science platform for cooperation in the development of the code. The code integrates individual and household panel data from all seven surveys into a harmonised dataset. See https://cpfdata.com/.