Table 4.

Results from the Recursive Bivariate Probit with a different threshold for the disruption of parent-child contacts.

	Disruption of parent-child relationship		Deepening depressed Mood
Variables	Marginal effects	SE	Marginal effects	SE
Disruption of parent-child contacts	–	–	0.187 ***	0.052
Demographics
Age	-0.005 ***	0.001	0.001	0.001
Female	0.003	0.008	0.081 ***	0.006
Married	0.001	0.008	-0.014 **	0.006
SES and Education
Medium education	-0.008	0.009	0.001	0.007
High education	0.019 *	0.011	0.009	0.008
Retired	0.027 **	0.012	-0.004	0.009
Ends not meeting	0.010	0.010	0.049 ***	0.007
Health
# chronic conditions	-0.002	0.002	0.015 ***	0.001
Mobility limitations	0.002	0.002	0.009 ***	0.001
Cognitive Impairments
episodic memory score	0.001	0.001	-0.002 **	0.001
Covid-19
directly affected by Covid-19	0.020	0.031	0.062 ***	0.021
other people with Covid 19	0.014	0.038	0.033	0.026
physical distance	0.059 ***	0.017	0.022	0.013
Contacts with others
any contact with others	-0.048 ***	0.008	0.001	0.006
Instruments
Non-cohabitation	0.121 ***	0.012	–	–
Duration of stay-at-home restrictions (in weeks)	0.016 ***	0.004	–	–
Use of internet	0.032 ***	0.009
Country dummies	yes		yes
Rho			-0.472 ***
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.