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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Apr 17.
Published in final edited form as: Soc Forces. 2013 Dec;92(2):491–519. doi: 10.1093/sf/sot096

Table 10.

The Number of Children Decreases Influence from Friends

Dependent Variable:
Current Ego Divorce Status
Coef. S.E. p
Alter Previously Divorced 1.80 0.57 0.002
Alter Previously Divorced×Ego Number of Children −0.49 0.24 0.04
Ego Number of Children at Previous Exam 0.12 0.09 0.15
Ego Age −0.04 0.01 0.00
Ego Years of Education 0.04 0.26 0.88
Ego Female −0.10 0.06 0.07
Exam 3 0.63 0.17 0.00
Exam 4 0.76 0.21 0.00
Exam 5 0.70 0.27 0.01
Exam 6 0.76 0.32 0.02
Exam 7 1.09 0.35 0.00
Constant 0.23 1.09 0.83
Deviance 263
Null Deviance 269
N 3040

Coefficients and standard errors in parenthesis for logit regression of current ego divorce status on previous alter divorce status among all egos who were not divorced at the previous exam. Observations are restricted to alters named by the ego as a friend. Exam 2 is not included as a dummy variable in the regression because it is the baseline observation. Exam 1 is excluded because all observations require lagged variables and information prior to Exam 1 was not observed.