Table 3.

Results from the Recursive Bivariate Probit – Baseline Model.

	Disruption of parent-child relationship		Deepening depressed Mood
Variables	Marginal effects	SE	Marginal effects	SE
Disruption of parent-child contacts	–	–	0.173 ***	0.052
Demographics
Age	-0.004 ***	0.001	0.001	0.006
Female	0.010	0.008	0.081 ***	0.001
Married	-0.003	0.008	-0.013 **	0.006
SES and Education
Medium education level	0.001	0.010	-0.001	0.007
High education level	0.034 ***	0.011	0.005	0.008
Retired	0.036 ***	0.013	-0.006	0.009
Ends not meeting	-0.003	0.010	0.052 ***	0.007
Health
# chronic conditions	0.002	0.002	0.014 ***	0.002
#mobility limitations	0.002	0.002	0.009 ***	0.001
Cognitive Impairments
episodic memory score	0.002	0.001	-0.002 **	0.001
Covid-19
directly affected by Covid-19	0.042	0.032	0.058 ***	0.021
other people with Covid 19	-0.001	0.039	0.036	0.026
physical distance	0.074 ***	0.017	0.019	0.013
Contacts with others
any contact with others	-0.057 ***	0.008	0.001	0.014
Instruments
Non-cohabitation	0.154 ***	0.012	–	–
Duration of stay-at-home restrictions (in weeks)	0.015 ***	0.004	–	–
Internet use	0.054 ***	0.009
Country dummies	yes		yes
Rho			-0.436 ***
N. obs	15,508		15,508

N.B.: Sample Selection: individuals aged 65 + from Wave 8 and SHARE-Covid19 Survey.

Significance level: * p value < 0.1; ** p value < 0.05; *** p value < 0.01.