Table 5 Sons and daughters’ lowest years of schooling and effects on parents’ life quality at old age
From: Does the number of children matter to the happiness of their parents?
Variables | Health condition | Economic status | Living environment | Living pattern | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | R5 | R6 | R7 | |
Self-assessment | Physical mobility | Relative economic status | Meat consumption | Flooring | Cooking energy | Living with children | |
Son’s average years of schooling | .010 (.011) | .001 (.011) | .045*** (.013) | .039** (.018) | .012 (.012) | .041 (.030) | −.087*** (.032) |
Daughter’s average years of schooling | .016* (.010) | .023** (.10) | .058*** (.012) | .011 (.015) | .038*** (.011) | .117*** (.029) | −.009 (.029) |
Personal characteristics of respondents | |||||||
Years of schooling | .015** (.007) | .010 (.007) | .031*** (.008) | .014 (.010) | .014** (.007) | .068*** (.018) | .021 (.019) |
Age | −.018*** (.007) | −.029*** (.007) | −.019*** (.008) | −.020** (.010) | −.028*** (.007) | −.056*** (.019) | −.101*** (.020) |
Party membership | .175* (.094) | .158* (.093) | .137 (.111) | .146 (.135) | .046 (.101) | .184 (.262) | .151 (.275) |
Number of siblings | .000 (.014) | .006 (.014) | −.007 (.016) | .045** (.022) | −.028** (.015) | −.069* (.038) | .007 (.040) |
Geographical characteristics | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN |
Birth year of children | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN |
Intercept | 4.084*** (.419) | 5.856*** (.413) | 2.928*** (.492) | 4.595*** (.650) | 4.286*** (.447) | 2.747 (1.182) | 6.366 (1.236) |
Valid sample | 994 | 994 | 994 | 994 | 994 | 994 | 994 |
F-value | 8.407*** | 14.118*** | 12.526*** | 4.464*** | 10.553*** | 166.063*** | 121.046*** |
R 2 | .093 | .147 | .133 | .093 | .114 | .205 | .160 |