Table 4.

Lagged OLS regression models predicting family economic Well-being

	Monthly income ($) Coef. (SE)	Financial strain Coef. (SE)	Medical hardship Coef. (SE)	Food insecurity Coef. (SE)
Into employment	824.64 (132.73) ^*** ^a	−.16 (.08)^* ^a	−.05 (.05)	−.11 (.05)^* ^{a b}
Out of employment	123.42 (172.63) ^{a b}	.13 (.11) ^a	.00 (.07)	.21 (.15) ^a
Stable employment	631.21 (152.96) ^*** ^b	−.05 (.06)	−.07 (.06)	.03 (.06) ^b
On to welfare	−432.49 (207.44) ^*	−.10 (.13)	−.17 (.04) ^*** ^a	−.02 (.06)
Off welfare	−360.96 (142.37) ^*	−.11 (.07) ⁺^b	−.03 (.05) ^{a b}	.08 (.06)
Stable welfare	−420.13 (139.90) ^**	.09 (.07) ^b	−.17 (.04) ^*** ^b	−.03 (.06)

F of Model	9.64^***	12.16^***	2.51^***	2.60^***
R²	.29	.27	.12	.15
N	1903	1894	1901	1898

Note:

⁺

p < .10,

p <.05,

^**

p <.01,

^***

p <.001.

Employment groups are compared to the omitted category of no employment; welfare groups are compared to the omitted category of No Welfare. Within each column, groups with shared superscript letters are different from each other at the p < .05 level (or if followed by + at p < .10). Employment is coded as working 30 hours or more per week. All analyses controlled for the wave 1 value of the dependent variable, as well as city, mother language, mother age, child gender, race/ethnicity, child age and change in age, mother marital status and change in marital status, mother education and change in education, mother relationship to child and change in relationship, as well as number of minors in household and change in number of minors.