Editing Mancur Olson (section)

==Family life and death==
Olson married his wife, Alison, in 1959, and the couple had three children.<ref name="archive">{{cite web |title=Collection: Mancur Olson papers |url=https://archives.lib.umd.edu/repositories/2/resources/1335 |website=archives.lib.umd.edu |publisher=University of Maryland, College Park |access-date=February 21, 2022}}</ref> At the time of his death, he was a resident of College Park, Maryland.<ref name="death" />

On February 19, 1998, Olson, then 66 years of age, suddenly collapsed outside his office after returning from lunch. He never regained consciousness and died on the same day. He and his infant son are buried in the cemetery of his childhood church, Grue Norwegian Lutheran,  near his family's farm and hometown of Buxton, Traill County, North Dakota.  The cause of death was later determined to be a [[heart attack]].<ref name="death" />