Widowhood and mortality: gender, race/ethnicity, and the role of economic resources

We examine widowhood effects on mortality across gender and race-ethnicity, with attention to variation in the mediating role of economic resources. Data were drawn from the Health and Retirement Study (1992–2016). The analytic sample included 34,777 respondents aged 51 years and older who contributed 208,470 person-period records. Discrete-time hazard models were estimated to predict the odds of death among white men, black men, Hispanic men,...