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Published in final edited form as: J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 2009 Mar 11;50(8):1018–1028. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7610.2009.02068.x

Table 3.

Hierarchical Linear Models of Maternal Age at Childbirth and Child-Reported Delinquency

Parameter	Model 1		Model 2		Model 3		Model 4		Model 5^a
Parameter	b	SE	b	SE	b	SE	b	SE	b	SE
Maternal Age at Childbearing
Focal MAC	−.032^*	.003	−.036^*	.004	−.027^*	.004
Focal MAC^* Sex			.009	.005	.008	.005
Focal MAC^* Birth Order					−.014^*	.002
Sibling Comparison							−.024^*	.006	−.034^*	.011
Sibling Comparison^* Sex							.004	.004	.005	.010
Sibling Comparison^* Birth Order							−.012^*	.003	−.017^*	.006
Unrelated Comparison							−.028^*	.005	−.029^*	.006
Unrelated Comparison^* Sex							.011^*	.005	.008	.008
Unrelated Comparison^* Birth Order							−.016^*	.003	−.020	.004
Offspring Gender	−.39^*	.02	−.49^*	.06	−.49^*	.06	−.57^*	.12	−.57^*	.19
Birth Order	.15^*	.01	.15^*	.01	.27^*	.02	.29^*	.03	.32^*	.05

Note. Delinquency is distributed as standard deviations. See note on Table 1.

p<.05.

Only included children (N=3,219) from families in which all the children were full siblings.