Table 4.

Effects of Sons and Daughters on the Risk of First observed Nursing Home Admission, Health and Retirement Study 1998–2006^a

	Husbands				Wives
	Model 1a		Model 2 a		Model 1b		Model 2b
	Coefficient	Hazard Ratio	Coefficient	Hazard Ratio	Coefficient	Hazard Ratio	Coefficient	Hazard Ratio
Spousal death	0.686**	1.99	1.188**	3.28	0.421†	1.52	0.719*	2.05
Number of sons	−0.033	0.97	−0.001	1.00	−0.060	0.94	−0.061	0.94
Number of daughters	−0.004	1.00	0.011	1.01	−0.054	0.95	0.002	1.00
Interactions
Number of sons × spousal death			−0.263†	0.77			0.014	1.01
Number of daughters × spousal death			−0.149	0.86			−0.246†	0.78
F-statistic	26.86**		25.00**		19.21**		19.83**

Notes: ^aEstimates from proportional hazards models, corrected for left truncation. All control variables were included in the models (Table 3).

^†p ≤ .10; *p ≤ .05; **p ≤ .01 (two-tailed).