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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Soc Sci Res. 2011 Jul 1;40(4):1196–1213. doi: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2011.03.008

Table 2.

Demographic and Socioeconomic Characteristics by Incarceration History

Full Sample Ever Incarcerated Never Incarcerated Incarceration History Unknown
Early Life
White*** 22% 13% 29% 13%
Black*** 47% 60% 38% 49%
Hispanic** 23% 20% 25% 28%
Other 7% 7% 7% 9%
Foreign-Born*** 15% 6% 20% 24%
Lived with both parents at age 15*** 44% 31% 53% 36%
Mother experienced depression*** 24% 28% 22% 24%
Cognitive Score (0=low, 15=high)*** 6.64 6.37 6.85 6.12
Impulsivity (0=low, 6=high)*** 0.94 1.28 0.78 1.08
Contemporaneous covariates
Age at baseline*** 28.3 26.2 29.3 29.3
Married at baseline*** 31% 10% 45% 32%
Cohabiting at baseline*** 39% 47% 35% 37%
Nonresident at baseline*** 30% 44% 20% 31%
Baseline education: <HS*** 29% 41% 22% 29%
Baseline education: HS grad** 37% 40% 34% 43%
Baseline education: Some college*** 20% 16% 23% 14%
Baseline education: College grad*** 13% 2% 21% 9%
Employed at baseline*** 85% 76% 90% 88%
Substance abuse at baseline*** 10% 17% 5% 8%
Father in good health at baseline*** 73% 68% 75% 76%
***

P≤.001,

**

P≤.01,

*

P≤.05