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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Feb 24.
Published in final edited form as: AJS. 2011 May;116(6):1934–1981. doi: 10.1086/660009

Table 5.

IPT weighted estimates for multigenerational exposure to different levels of neighborhood poverty on children's cognitive ability, by race

≥10% Poor
≥20% Poor
≥40% Poor
Broad
Reading
Applied
Problems
Broad
Reading
Applied
Problems
Broad
Reading
Applied
Problems
African-Americans
  Parent Neighborhood Poverty, β1 - - −5.96*** −4 74*** −5.13* −2.91
- - (2.07) (1.69) (2.87) (2.00)
  Child Neighborhood Poverty, β2 - - −0.30 −1.09 −7.99* −5.68*
- - (1.87) (1.45) (4.30) (2.97)

  Multigenerational exposure, β12 - - −6.26*** −5.84*** −13.11*** −8.59***
- - (2.10) (1.59) (4.48) (2.58)

Whites
  Parent Neighborhood Poverty, β1 −2.12 −3.62* 6.76** 1.52 - -
(2.24) (1.85) (3.27) (3.89) - -
  Child Neighborhood Poverty, β2 −2.98 −0.98 −8.07* 0.18 - -
(2.04) (1.59) (4.37) (3.01) - -

  Multigenerational exposure, β12 −5.13 −4.60** −1.31 1.70 - -
(3.13) (2.15) (4.31) (3.84) - -

Notes:

***

significant at p<.01

**

significant at p<.05;

*

significant at p<. 10

Estimated causal effects from IPT weighted marginal structural models, standard errors in parentheses. Standard errors account for clustering at the family level.