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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jan 30.
Published in final edited form as: Soc Sci Res. 2011 Jan 30;40(1):87–106. doi: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2010.04.013

Table 3.

Coefficients for Logistic Regression Analysis of High School Graduation, Panel Study of Income Dynamics, Blacks Born between 1968 and 1980.

All Blacks
Females
Males
Model 1
Model 2
Model 3
Model 4
Model 5
Local Neighborhood Conditions
 Average local neighborhood advantage between ages 0 and 18 .264 * (.108) .254 * (.119) .190 (.140) .147 (.160) .444 * (.183)
Extralocal Neighborhood Conditions
 Average extralocal neighborhood advantage between ages 0 and 18 .022 (.108) −.059 (.143) −.077 (.150) .149 (.161)
Local-Extralocal Interaction
 Local neighborhood advantage between ages 0 and 18 X Extralocal neighborhood advantage between age 0 and 18 −.088 (.103)
Micro-level characteristics
 Female .093 (.178) .094 (.178) .101 (.179)
 Year of birth −.005 (.023) −.004 (.023) −.005 (.023) .020 (.031) −.040 (.034)
 Family income-to-needs ratio 1.023 *** (.181) 1.019 *** (.182) 1.035 *** (.184) 1.013 *** (.238) .994 *** (.286)
 Head completed college .464 (.760) .473 (.761) .472 (.761) .138 (1.084) .649 (1.094)
 Time in female-headed family .513 (.271) .508 (.272) .518 (.273) .373 (.354) .668 (.433)
 Residential mobility −1.802 *** (.531) −1.807 *** (.532) −1.794 *** (.533) −1.002 (.711) −3.010 *** (.820)
Model chi-square 812.119 812.077 811.369 453.516 349.618
Number of observations 953 514 439

Notes: Numbers in parentheses are standard errors.

p ≤ .10

*

p ≤ .05

**

p ≤ .01

***

p ≤ .001