Table 3. Median Life Expectancy of Black and White HRS Participants and Projected Life Expectancy of Black Participants After Reparations Payments.

Outcome	Participants
	White	Black	Black with reparations
			Models with all SES variables	Wealth-only models
Median life expectancy (95% CI), ya	81.5 (81.2 to 81.8)	77.5 (77.0 to 78.2)	80.1 (79.5 to 80.7)	81.6 (81.0 to 82.2)
Difference compared with White participants, y	NA	4.0	1.4	−0.1
P valueb		<.001	.002	.70
Difference in longevity gap accounted for by reparations payments, %	NA	NA	65.0	102.5

Abbreviations: HRS, Health and Retirement Study; NA, not applicable; SES, socioeconomic status.

^a Estimated using the Weibull models reported in Table 2, which account for the HRS’ complex sample design.

^b Calculated using the Wilcoxon signed-rank test.