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. 2009 Mar 11;276(1664):2081–2084. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2009.0051

Table 2.

Sons and maternal longevity. (Heteroskedasticity robust standard errors (White 1980) in parentheses. Significant at *5%, **1%.)

dependent variable: maternal longevity

(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6)
constant 66.999** (1.984) 41.051** (2.600) 66.178** (2.359) 66.707** (3.276) 66.117** (2.091) 67.035** (2.507)
number of sons 0.230 (0.278) 0.410 (0.383) −0.048 (0.348) 0.091 (0.482) 0.263 (0.313) −0.015 (0.391)
parity 0.009 (0.184) 0.974** (0.258) 0.373 (0.231) −0.113 (0.351) 0.097 (0.207) 0.259 (0.268)
husband's longevity 0.068* (0.028) 0.247** (0.038) 0.053 (0.035) 0.095 (0.050) 0.067* (0.030) 0.049 (0.037)
observations 930 1221 582 304 802 497
Sami indicator: mother one or more one or more two or more three or more one or more two or more
Sami indicator: husband one or more two or more
longevity restriction ≥50 ≥50 ≥50 ≥50 ≥50
R2 0.009 0.092 0.015 0.014 0.013 0.010