Table 1. Life expectancy measures, 2010.

By race and ethnicity, wife is aged 60.

	Non-Hispanic White	Black	Hispanic
Wife Life Expectancy	24.40	23.05	26.40
	(0.00)	(0.00)	(0.00)
Husband Life Expectancy	20.17	18.22	21.05
	(3.59)	(3.74)	(4.59)
Joint Life Expectancy	17.66	15.45	18.79
	(2.08)	(2.12)	(2.82)
Survivor Life Expectancy (Wife)	12.48	13.52	13.13
	(1.21)	(1.19)	(1.77)
Survivor Life Expectancy (Husband)	9.48	10.05	9.34
	(1.51)	(1.77)	(1.85)
Probability that Wife is the Surviving Spouse	0.63	0.63	0.65
	(0.10)	(0.10)	(0.12)
Age Gap (Husband–Wife)	1.91	1.81	2.25
	(4.79)	(5.61)	(5.90)
Sample Size	10,967	848	620

Calculations by authors. Standard errors in parentheses.