NORMAN B. ANDERSON (Chair),

American Psychological Association, Washington, DC

EILEEN M. CRIMMINS,

Andrus Gerontology Center, University of Southern California

ANGUS S. DEATON,*

Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University

DAVID V. ESPINO,

Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

JAMES S. HOUSE,

Institute of Gerontology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

JAMES S. JACKSON,

Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

CHRISTOPHER JENCKS,

John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

GERALD E. MCCLEARN,

Department of Biobehavioral Health, Pennsylvania State University

ALBERTO PALLONI,

Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison

TERESA E. SEEMAN,

School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles

JAMES P. SMITH,

RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA

EUGENIA Y.-H. WANG,

School of Medicine, University of Louisville

DAVID R. WILLIAMS,

Department of Sociology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

RODOLFO A. BULATAO, Study Director

BARNEY COHEN, Director,

Committee on Population

BANGHWA LEE CASADO, Research Intern

CHRISTINE COVINGTON CHEN, Project Assistant

ANTHONY S. MANN, Senior Project Assistant