change in employment status), perceived stress, and subjective health. Results: Cohabitation led to significant weight gain … in men and women - after four years or longer, about twice the gain associated with marriage (controlling for weight …-related behaviors, age, children, employment, stress, and health). BMI after separation was largely comparable to BMI before starting …

The body mass index (BMI) is the primary means of classifying obesity and reflects a complex set of interactions … related to the institution of marriage and household characteristics. There is an inverse relationship between BMI and height …, and height reflects the cumulative price of net nutrition during childhood and resources devoted to an off-spring's health …

data from Indonesia covering a period of 22 years, we analyze how ethnic-based kinship systems and marriage customs …

The body mass index (BMI) is the primary means of classifying obesity and reflects a complex set of interactions … related to the institution of marriage and household characteristics. There is an inverse relationship between BMI and height …, and height reflects the cumulative price of net nutrition during childhood and resources devoted to an off-spring's health …

This paper investigates whether the health of children affects the likelihood that their parents divorce. Using data … from the 1988 National Health Interview Survey, the National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health, and the 1970 British … Birth Cohort Study, I find that low birth weight children are at a higher risk of experiencing parental divorce than …