Marital status and mortality: the national longitudinal mortality study.

By Norman J. Johnson, E. Backlund, P. Sorlie, Catherine A. Loveless. Annals of Epidemiology, 2000

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Advances in Families and Health Research in the 21st Century (2010, background): “Mortality is one of the few outcomes studied among the never married because mortality and marital status data are available on very large administrative data sets such as the National Longitudinal Mortality Study (N. J. Johnson et al., 2000) and vital registries (Manzoli et al., 2007).”
The physiology of marriage: pathways to health. (2003, background): “C US$23,400 [13]), but after controlling for income, married persons still have lower rates of mortality than nonmarried persons [7].”
Is There Something Unique about Marriage? The Relative Impact of Marital Status, Relationship Quality, and Network Social Support on Ambulatory Blood Pressure and Mental Health (2008, background): “For instance, prior research suggests that married adults have lower rates of morbidity and mortality compared to unmarried adults [3].”
How Does Marriage Affect Physical and Psychological Health? A Survey of the Longitudinal Evidence (2005, background): “Other non-longitudinal studies, that do not attempt to control for selection effects, include a 16-nation study (Hu and Goldman 1995), work on Israeli data (Manor et al 2000), and much evidence for the US (Johnson et al 2000, among others).”