Table 3.
Comparison of beta coefficients and 95% confidence intervals from ordinary least squares and two-stage least squares regression evaluating the association between oldest child’s educational attainment and older parents' psychosocial outcomes in Mexico, overall and by gender.
| Panel A: Overall | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oldest Child (n = 7186) |
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| OLS |
2SLS |
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| β | 95% CI | β | 95% CI | |
| Depressive symptoms (0–9) | −0.04 | (−0.05, −0.02) | −0.25 | (−0.51, 0.00) |
| Life satisfaction score (5–15)a | −0.04 | (−0.05, −0.02) | 0.01 | (−0.22, 0.25) |
| Panel B: Parent’s Gender | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fathers (n = 3238) |
Mothers (n = 3948) |
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| OLS |
2SLS |
OLS |
2SLS |
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| β | 95% CI | β | 95% CI | β | 95% CI | β | 95% CI | |
| Depressive symptoms (0–9) | −0.03 | (−0.06, −0.01) | −0.18 | (−0.63, 0.26) | −0.04 | (−0.06, −0.02) | −0.27 | (−0.56, 0.01) |
| Life satisfaction score (5–15)a | −0.03 | (−0.05, −0.01) | 0.28 | (−0.18, 0.76) | −0.04 | (−0.06, −0.02) | −0.08 | (−0.34, 0.17) |
| Panel C: Adult Child’s Gender | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oldest Daughter (n = 6725) |
Oldest Son (n = 6707) |
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| OLS |
2SLS |
OLS |
2SLS |
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| β | 95% CI | β | 95% CI | β | 95% CI | β | 95% CI | |
| Depressive symptoms (0–9) | −0.03 | (−0.04, −0.01) | −0.05 | (−0.23, 0.13) | −0.05 | (−0.06, −0.03) | −0.37 | (−0.73, −0.02) |
| Life satisfaction score (5–15) a | −0.03 | (−0.04, −0.01) | 0.09 | (−0.08, 0.25) | −0.05 | (−0.06, −0.03) | 0.19 | (−0.13, 0.51) |
a
Items were coded such that higher scores reflected lower quality of life.
Source: Mexican Health and Aging Study, 2012. Controls: Age, gender, marital status, own education, whether the respondent speaks an indigenous dialect, highest parental education level with missing indicator, early-life disadvantage score, own occupation, spousal age, spousal occupation, spousal education; models cluster standard errors at the household level.