Table A.1.

Descriptive Statistics, HRS-2002

	Mean	SD
Alive in 2010	0.77	0.42
Subjective survival probability to target age	48.40	32.13
Age	68.15	8.69
Target age less actual age	15.97	4.17
Female	0.59	0.49
Black	0.12	0.33
Hispanic	0.06	0.24
Years of education	12.54	3.00
Mother is alive	0.16	0.37
Mother’s age of death/100 or current age	0.76	0.15
Father is alive	0.05	0.23
Father’s age of death/100 or current age	0.72	0.14
Exercises at least 3 times a week	0.43	0.49
Ever smoked	0.59	0.49
Smokes now	0.14	0.34
Ever drinks alcohol	0.48	0.50
No. of days a week when drinks alcohol	1.10	2.08
No. of days a week when drinks alcohol if positive	3.42	2.34
No. of drinks when drinks alcohol	0.61	1.18
No. of drinks when drinks alcohol if positive	1.92	1.36
Health excellent/very good, 2002	0.43	0.49
Health good, 2002	0.32	0.47
Health fair/poor, 2002	0.25	0.43
Health excellent/very good, 2000	0.47	0.50
Health good, 2000	0.31	0.46
Health fair/poor, 2000	0.22	0.42
Cognition scorea	0.08	1.01
Vocabulary scorea	0.11	0.97
CESD depression scorea	−0.04	1.04
N	13,038

^aThese variables were standardized to have mean 0 and standard deviation 1 in the total HRS sample.