Table 2.
Models of Wife’s Earnings
| Variable | United States |
Great Britain |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Model 1 | Model 2 | Model 1 | Model 2 | |
| Child Born This Year | 769.88** | –111.61 | 1,586.69** | 611.28** |
| (3.41) | (0.43) | (9.02) | (3.42) | |
| Number of Children | –3,946.87** | –2,664.66** | –3,640.97** | –2,323.60** |
| (24.70) | (14.68) | (29.35) | (15.89) | |
| Age of Youngest Child | 163.75** | 138.06** | 82.75** | 42.27* |
| (5.96) | (4.54) | (5.11) | (2.43) | |
| Moved This Year | –455.36 | –876.89 | –148.66 | –386.01 |
| –0.97 | –1.79 | (0.35) | (0.85) | |
| Number of Previous Moves | –1,401.51** | –821.19** | –1,073.41** | –952.22** |
| (5.72) | (3.09) | (3.39) | (2.80) | |
| Years Since Last Move | 248.65** | 235.55** | –51.28 | 42.32 |
| (3.53) | (3.28) | (0.63) | (0.51) | |
| Age | 1,347.10** | 1,128.67** | 1,373.75** | 1,220.73** |
| (6.41) | (4.82) | (8.01) | (6.20) | |
| Age, Squared | –20.05** | –13.48** | –15.06** | –12.51** |
| (13.37) | (8.09) | (15.51) | (11.21) | |
| Husband’s Earnings | 0.02** | 0.02** | 0.01 | 0.02** |
| (6.45) | (6.48) | (1.87) | (5.10) | |
| Employed Part-Time Last Year | 6,243.64** | 1,559.47** | ||
| (25.58) | (10.47) | |||
| Employed Full-Time Last Year | 11,911.70** | 6,195.46** | ||
| (40.89) | (31.44) | |||
| Years of Education | 1,072.61** | 216.14** | ||
| (5.01) | (2.74) | |||
| Constant | 8,519.66 | –17,369.54 | –15,774.46* | –21,268.94** |
| (1.11) | (1.90) | (2.30) | (2.69) | |
| Number of Person-Years | 37,970 | 30,716 | 19,772 | 15,366 |
| Number of Persons | 6,080 | 4,555 | 4,337 | 3,641 |
| R2 | 0.05 | 0.11 | 0.07 | 0.15 |
Notes: Absolute values of t statistics are in parentheses. Parameters for yearly dummy variables are not shown but are available upon request.
*
p < .05;
**
p < .01