Table 6.

Results from the Recursive Bivariate Probit, Greater Loneliness.

	Disruption of parent-child relationship		Greater Loneliness
Variables	Marginal effects	SE	Marginal effects	SE
parent-children contact disruption	–	–
Demographics			0.167 ***	0.038
age	-0.004 ***	0.001	0.001 ***	0.001
female	0.010	0.008	0.060 ***	0.005
married	-0.003	0.008	-0.072	0.005
SES and Education
Medium education	0.001	0.010	0.001	0.006
High education	0.034 ***	0.011	0.005	0.007
Retired	0.036 ***	0.013	0.015 *	0.008
Ends not meeting	-0.003	0.010	0.040 ***	0.006
Health
# chronic conditions	0.002	0.002	0.005 ***	0.001
#mobility limitations	0.002	0.002	0.007 ***	0.001
Cognitive Impairments
episodic memory score	0.001	0.001	-0.002 ***	0.001
Covid-19
directly affected by Covid-19	0.042	0.031	0.024	0.020
other people with Covid 19	-0.002	0.040	0.013	0.025
physical distance	0.074 ***	0.017	0.023 *	0.012
Contacts with others
any contact with others	-0.058 ***	0.008	0.001	0.006
Instruments
Non-cohabitation	0.156 ***	0.012	–	–
Duration of stay-at-home restrictions (in weeks)	0.015 ***	0.004	–	–
Internet use	0.058 ***	0.009
Country dummies	yes		yes
Rho			-0.473 ***
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.