The life expectancy of older couples and surviving spouses

• Janice Compton ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Janice Compton, Robert A. Pollak

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Economics, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

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• Robert A. Pollak

  Contributed equally to this work with: Janice Compton, Robert A. Pollak

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: pollak@wustl.edu

  Affiliations Department of Economics and Olin School of Business, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America, National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, IZA Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9824-561X

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