Spousal Health Effects - the Role of Selection

James Banks, Elaine Kelly, James P. Smith

NBER Working Paper No. 19438
Issued in September 2013

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This paper was supported by grants from the National Institute of Aging and to the Economic and Social Research Council for co-funding through the Centre for Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy at the IFS . It w as presented in the Boulders NBER economic s of aging conference in May 2013. The expert programming assistance of Iva MacLennan is gratefully acknowledged . We appreciate the excellent comments of our discussant, Amitabh Chandra, and other participants at the economics of aging conference. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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