Table 5.
Associations Between Adolescent Health and Academic Mediators: NLSY97, 1997–2003a
| Variable | Educational Participation |
Educational Performance |
Educational Expectations |
|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| School/Work Limitations | Days Absent | ASVAB | Repeat | Average Grade | Will Stay in School | Graduation Expectations | Parents’ Graduation Expectations | |
| Good/Fair/Poor Health | 1.099** (0.13) | 2.48** (0.42) | –8.208** (1.13) | 0.520** (0.12) | 0.905** (0.085) | –1.358 (1.29) | –0.805 (1.21) | –1.200 (1.27) |
| Black | –0.449 (0.17) | –0.742** (0.26) | –20.951** (1.04) | 0.778** (0.11) | 0.420** (0.076) | –1.792 (1.20) | –1.813 (1.17) | –1.989 (1.23) |
| Hispanic | –0.984 (0.24) | –0.00174 (0.32) | –10.151** (1.23) | 0.130 (0.13) | 0.278** (0.090) | –1.773 (1.34) | –1.493 (1.25) | –2.143 (1.34) |
| Black × Health | –0.348 (0.23) | –1.408* (0.58) | 5.269** (1.66) | –0.329† (0.17) | –0.729** (0.14) | 3.260 (2.15) | 3.129 (2.03) | 2.375 (2.19) |
| Hispanic × Health | 0.0123 (0.31) | –0.885 (0.64) | 2.868 (1.96) | –0.409* (0.21) | –0.415* (0.16) | 2.069 (2.46) | 1.751 (2.33) | 1.652 (2.46) |
| Constant | –2.001** (0.56) | –2.279* (0.92) | 39.473** (3.57) | –4.431** (0.39) | 1.998** (0.28) | –348.499** (3.67) | –358.760** (3.25) | –342.118** (3.78) |
| N | 6,505 | 6,467 | 5,486 | 6,407 | 5,341 | 6,106 | 6,102 | 6,105 |
| Type of Modelb | L | OLS | OLS | L | OLS | OLS | OLS | OLS |
a
Standard errors are in parentheses. All models include main effects for age, sex, number of children under age 18 in the household, 1997 parental education, 1997 household poverty ratio, and 1997 parental marital status.
b
L = binary logit model; OLS = ordinary least squares.
†
p <.10;
*
p <.05;
**
p <.01