Table 1.
Panel A: By Offspring’s High School Dropout Behaviour | |||||
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Co-Residence Transfer |
Financial Transfer |
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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 | |||||
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Co-Residence Transfer |
Financial Transfer |
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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.