Table 4.

Association of the End of Life Index with the Time Discount Rate for Older HRS Respondents

	End of Life Index
Discount rate	−0.599	***	−0.202		−0.190
	(0.164)		(0.159)		(0.162)
Age			0.030	**	0.029	**
			(0.012)		(0.012)
Male			−0.140		−0.177
			(0.115)		(0.119)
White			0.544	***	0.521	***
			(0.149)		(0.149)
Hispanic			−0.710	***	−0.661	***
			(0.164)		(0.171)
Education years			0.106	***	0.102	***
			(0.020)		(0.020)
Married			−0.313	***	−0.340	***
			(0.111)		(0.115)
Cognition score			0.021		0.020
			(0.014)		(0.014)
Christian			0.332		0.301
			(0.259)		(0.255)
Jewish			0.627		0.576
			(0.483)		(0.480)
Procrastinator score			−0.008		−0.008
			(0.015)		(0.015)
Optim10+			−0.027		−0.030
			(0.106)		(0.108)
Have living children			0.283		0.261
			(0.235)		(0.234)
Leave any bequest			0.081		0.056
			(0.122)		(0.125)
Poor health index					0.059
					(0.060)
Mental shortfall					0.274
					(0.234)
Ln(HH income)					0.070
					(0.054)
Intercept	1.973	***	−3.126	***	−3.608	***
	(0.105)		(1.064)		(1.182)
N	487		487		487
R-squared	0.026		0.256		0.261
Mean of dep. var.	1.655
Std.dev. of dep. var.	1.264

See notes to Table 1.