Table 1.

Distribution of Parental Transfers

Panel A: By Offspring’s High School Dropout Behaviour
		Co-Residence Transfer		Financial Transfer
		Mean	N	Mean	N
HS Dropout Status:
Not HS Dropout		0.22	101,985	0.24	51,760
High School Dropout		0.22	42,773	0.19	21,482
Average		0.22	144,758	0.23	73,242
(1) High School Dropouts
No. of Sibs Younger than 18
0		0.18	25,233	0.18	9,485
1		0.29	5,483	0.20	3,639
2		0.31	2,459	0.21	1,961
3+		0.31	1,812	0.20	1,581
Missing		0.25	7,786	0.20	4,816
(2) Not High School Dropouts
No. of Sibs Younger than 18
0		0.19	63,711	0.22	25,703
1		0.35	12,190	0.29	9,159
2		0.36	4,012	0.27	3,367
3+		0.39	2,206	0.26	1,988
Missing		0.21	19,866	0.22	11,543
(1) Minus (2)
No. of Sibs Younger than 18
0		0.00		−0.05
1		−0.06		−0.08
2		−0.05		−0.06
3+		−0.08		−0.07

Panel B: By Daughter’s Teenage Childbearing Behaviour
		Co-Residence Transfer		Financial Transfer
		Mean	N	Mean	N
Teen Birth Status:
No Teen Birth		0.21	62,130	0.27	31,301
Teen Birth		0.12	9,202	0.12	4,601
Average		0.20	71,332	0.26	35,902
(1) Teen Birth
No. of Sisters Younger than 18
0		0.12	7,010	0.11	2,999
1		0.16	1,134	0.10	849
2		0.19	400	0.16	324
3+		0.20	196	0.15	180
Missing		0.08	462	0.18	249
(2) No Teen Birth
No. of Sisters Younger than 18
0		0.19	48,856	0.26	21,843
1		0.36	6,350	0.31	5,049
2		0.41	1,455	0.32	1,306
3+		0.41	466	0.35	419
Missing		0.23	5,003	0.26	2,684
(1) Minus (2)
No. of Sisters Younger than 18
0		−0.07		−0.15
1		−0.19		−0.20
2		−0.21		−0.16
3+		−0.22		−0.19

Notes: The sample for Panel A consists of all respondents in NLSY79 data set. Sampling weights were used to reproduce the population distribution of means.

Notes: The sample for Panel B consists of all female respondents to the NLSY79. Sampling weights were used to reproduce the population distribution of means.