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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Criminol Public Policy. 2015 Jan 24;14(1):125–156. doi: 10.1111/1745-9133.12109

Table A2.

Means of Covariates by Maternal Incarceration and Propensity Score Strata

 Variable Stratum 1 Stratum 2 Stratum 3
p = [.00, .05) p = [.05, .10) p = [.10, .30)

E(X) | d = 1 E(X) | d = 0 E(X) | d = 1 E(X) | d = 0 E(X) | d = 1 E(X) | d = 0
Mother race
  Non-Hispanic White 0.174 0.242 0.283 0.280 0.212 0.193
  Non-Hispanic Black 0.435 0.354 0.556 0.558 0.576 0.558
  Hispanic 0.391 0.404 0.161 0.162 0.212 0.249
Mother foreign-born 0.348 0.433 0.020 0.037 0.000 0.000
Mother lived with both biological parents at age 15 0.652 0.683 0.333 0.366 0.238 0.245
Mother less than high school 0.174 0.175 0.192 0.159 0.702 0.667
Mother employment 0.696 0.786 0.646 0.630 0.219 0.257
Mother co-resident with child’s father 0.913 0.852 0.566 0.547 0.238 0.328
Mother depression 0.130 0.055 0.091 0.129 0.305 0.273
Father previously incarcerated 0.043 0.043 0.303 0.273 0.728 0.675
N 26 788 99 1,140 151 807

Notes. E(X) | d = 0 indicates means for not incarcerated mothers. E(X) | d = 1 indicates means for incarcerated mothers. Mothers in stratum 1 have the lowest propensity for incarceration, and mothers in stratum 3 have the highest propensity for incarceration.