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Lifecourse and health
Mothering alone: cross-national comparisons of later-life disability and health among women who were single mothers

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  • Lisa F Berkman Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA Departments of Social and Behavioral Sciences; Epidemiology; and Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Yuhui Zheng School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • M Maria Glymour Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Mauricio Avendano Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Health, London, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Axel Börsch-Supan Munich Center for the Economics of Aging at the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy, Munich, Germany PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Erika L Sabbath Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA School of Social Work, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Dr Lisa F Berkman, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, 9 Bow Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA; lberkman{at}hsph.harvard.edu
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Berkman LF, Zheng Y, Glymour MM, et al
Mothering alone: cross-national comparisons of later-life disability and health among women who were single mothers
J Epidemiol Community Health 2015;69:865-872.

Publication history

  • Received October 23, 2014
  • Revised February 24, 2015
  • Accepted February 28, 2015
  • First published May 14, 2015.
Online issue publication 
August 11, 2015

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