Table 3.

Relative Risk Ratios from Multinomial Event History Models of the Likelihood of Second Birth among Men and Women with a Nonmarital First Birth

	Noncoresidential vs. no birth	Cohabiting vs. no birth	Marital vs. no birth	Cohabiting vs. noncoresidential birth	Marital vs. noncoresidential birth
	RRR	RRR	RRR	RRR	RRR
Female	2.99***	1.10	1.11	0.37***	0.37***
Duration < 3 years	1.37	1.19	0.53***	0.87	0.39***
Female* Duration <3 years	0.47***	0.44***	0.86	0.93	1.83*
Race/Ethnicity
White	--	--	--	--	--
Hispanic	1.26*	2.12***	0.82	1.68**	0.65*
Black	1.47***	1.57***	0.43***	1.06	0.29***
Other	1.55**	1.90*	0.87	1.22	0.56
Foreign born	0.89	1.00	1.17	1.13	1.31
Family structure at age 14
Both biological parents	--	--	--	--	--
Stepfamily	1.05	0.98	1.11	0.94	1.06
Other	1.01	1.03	0.99	1.02	0.98
Education
Had diploma or GED at 1st birth	--	--	--	--	--
No diploma at 1st birth, have one now	1.01	0.91	1.12	0.91	1.12
No diploma at 1st birth, do not have one now	1.39***	1.40**	0.80*	1.00	0.57***
Mother’s education
Less than HS/missing	1.03	1.05	1.31*	1.02	1.28
HS/GED	--	--	--	--	--
Some college	0.85	0.91	1.13	1.08	1.33
College or higher	1.18	1.02	1.20	0.86	1.01
Mother had her 1st birth <18 years old	1.14	1.19	0.83	1.04	0.73*
Age at 1st birth	0.95***	0.95***	1.01	1.00	1.07***
Cohabiting at 1st birth	0.54***	2.80***	1.19	5.15***	2.18***
Number of person-years	16969
Number of subjects	3250
Number of births	1937
−2 log likelihood	15364

Source: National Survey of Family Growth.

^*p ≤ .05.

^**p ≤ .01.

^***p ≤ .001