Table 2.

Multinomial Logit Coefficients and Standard Errors for Couples’ Financial Transfers to Elderly Mothers, Mexican Health and Aging Study, 2001

	Husband's Mother Only		Wife's Mother Only		Both Mothers
Explanatory Variable	Coefficient	SE	Coefficient	SE	Coefficient	SE
Couple's characteristics
Husband's years of schooling	–0.021	0.022	–0.005	0.017	0.079	0.037*
Net worth quartile (vs. lowest quartile)
Second quartile	0.091	0.273	0.601	0.217**	–0.780	0.494
Third quartile	0.119	0.268	0.422	0.219*	–0.724	0.467
Fourth quartile	0.540	0.274*	0.730	0.231**	–0.809	0.473
Either partner ever migrated to United States	–0.501	0.242*	–0.347	0.195	0.912	0.410*
Number of children	–0.005	0.038	–0.018	0.027	–0.022	0.068
Husband's age	–0.008	0.019	0.015	0.012	–0.045	0.035
Wife has most or equal say in decisions	–0.168	0.214	–0.085	0.174	0.287	0.364
Wife ever held paid job	0.623	0.188**	0.285	0.150	–0.173	0.338
Husband's mother's characteristics
Any formal education	–0.048	0.194	0.488	0.369	–0.706	0.429
Financial situation (vs. poor)
Fair	–0.291	0.259	0.390	0.529	0.620	0.617
Good, very good, or excellent	–0.679	0.300*	0.780	0.598	–0.201	0.712
Needs assistance with ADLs	–0.263	0.255	0.740	0.433	–0.471	0.527
Age	0.009	0.014	–0.026	0.008**	0.035	0.022
Married	–0.413	0.214*	0.154	0.364	–0.101	0.443
Personal care from couple	0.954	0.454*	1.254	0.717	–0.826	0.789
Coresident of the couple	–0.355	0.537	0.356	0.728	0.290	0.960
Wife's mother's characteristics
Any formal education	0.322	0.300	0.237	0.154	–0.585	0.372
Financial situation (vs. poor)
Fair	0.225	0.422	–0.830	0.308**	–0.258	0.528
Good, very good, or excellent	0.454	0.471	–1.205	0.337**	0.089	0.591
Needs assistance with ADLs	–0.366	0.454	0.442	0.200*	–0.329	0.543
Age	–0.015	0.007*	–0.007	0.008	0.039	0.017*
Married	–0.094	0.298	–0.165	0.291	0.584	0.427
Personal care from couple	0.382	0.531	0.443	0.247	–0.373	0.584
Coresident of the couple	1.850	0.796*	0.540	0.474	–3.633	1.319**
Husband's siblings’ characteristics
Size of sibship	–0.072	0.030*	–0.010	0.025	0.124	0.057*
Monetary transfer to mother	1.737	0.221**	–0.149	0.374	0.147	0.505
Personal care to mother	–0.070	0.256	–0.248	0.465	0.304	0.542
Coresident of mother	–0.421	0.212*	0.525	0.401	–0.287	0.460
Agreement to care for mother	0.845	0.196**	0.597	0.380	–0.578	0.432
Wife's siblings’ characteristics
Size of sibship	–0.025	0.030	–0.076	0.025**	–0.019	0.056
Monetary transfer to mother	0.575	0.319	1.842	0.180**	0.363	0.502
Personal care to mother	–0.246	0.427	–0.645	0.208**	0.353	0.499
Coresident of mother	–0.382	0.309	–0.147	0.148	0.483	0.363
Agreement to care for mother	0.030	0.328	0.581	0.151**	0.309	0.374
Constant	–0.402	1.261	–1.205	0.910	–2.856	2.519

Note:ADL = activity of daily living.

^*p ≤ .05.

^**p ≤ .01.