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    The Protective Effect of Marriage for Survival: A Review and Update

    The theory that marriage has protective effects for survival has itself lived for more than 100 years since Durkheim’s groundbreaking study of suicide (Durkheim 1951 [1897]). Investigations of differences in this...

    Michael S. Rendall, Margaret M. Weden, Melissa M. Favreault, Hilary Waldron in Demography (2011)

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    Minimum Benefits in Social Security

    In 1998, the bipartisan National Commission on Retirement Policy advanced a reform proposal that contained a minimum benefit within Social Security. Since then, numerous congressional proposals have included m...

    Melissa M. Favreault, Gordon B. T. Mermin in Government Spending on the Elderly (2007)