Volume 19 - Article 60 | Pages 2011–2042
Educational differences in all-cause mortality by marital status: Evidence from Bulgaria, Finland and the United States
By Iliana Kohler, Pekka Martikainen, Kirsten P. Smith, Irma T. Elo
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