Table 4.
Unstandardized Coefficients from Within Individual Regressions of Academic Performance, Educational Expectations, School Behaviors, and School Activities on Teenage Work Hours and Preferences (MTF Longitudinal Data)
| Work Hours and Preferences | GPA | School Activities |
School Effort | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Working moderate hours | .064 ** (.025) |
.027 (.037) |
.076 * (.037) |
|
| Working intensive hours | −.022 (.032) |
−.028 (.048) |
−.113 * (.051) |
|
| Not working (and preferring not to work) | .090 † (.049) |
.061 (.086) |
.004 (.079) |
|
| Not working (but wishing to work moderate hours) | .090 *** (.026) |
.082 * (.042) |
.074 † (.040) |
|
| Work Hours and Preferences | Incomplete Assignments |
School Misbehavior |
Truancy | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Working moderate hours | −.048 (.041) |
−.032 (.036) |
−.034 (.058) |
|
| Working intensive hours | .118 * (.054) |
.079 † (.047) |
.226 ** (.082) |
|
| Not working (and preferring not to work) | −.069 (.085) |
.090 (.078) |
.060 (.120) |
|
| Not working (but wishing to work moderate hours) | −.107 * (.042) |
−.099 ** (.037) |
−.127 * (.058) |
|
| Work Hours and Preferences | Expect BA/BS Degree (Binary) |
School Suspension (Binary) |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| γ | odds | γ | odds | |
| Working moderate hours | .305 *** (.074) |
1.36 | −.297 *** (.058) |
.74 |
| Working intensive hours | −.008 (.090) |
.99 | .178 * (.071) |
1.19 |
| Not working (and preferring not to work) | .048 (.172) |
1.05 | −.222 † (.126) |
.80 |
| Not working (but wishing to work moderate hours) | .242 ** (.078) |
1.27 | −.337 *** (.058) |
.71 |
Note. Reference category is not working but wishing to work intensive hours. Numbers in parentheses are standard errors. Coefficients for year and year squared not shown.
***
p <.001,
**
p <.01,
*
p <.05,
†
p <.10