Table 5. OLS and Residualized Change Regressions of Long-term Material Hardship and Child Behavior.
| Externalizing | Internalizing | Positive Behavior | ||||||||||
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| OLS | RC | OLS | RC | OLS | RC | |||||||
| β | SE | β | SE | β | SE | β | SE | β | SE | β | SE | |
| Material Hardship Index | ||||||||||||
| One Wave | 0.16** | 0.05 | 0.12* | 0.05 | 0.22*** | 0.05 | 0.25*** | 0.05 | −0.03 | 0.05 | −0.02 | 0.05 |
| Two Waves | 0.40*** | 0.05 | 0.29*** | 0.05 | 0.38*** | 0.05 | 0.37*** | 0.05 | −0.03 | 0.05 | −0.04 | 0.05 |
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| Dimensions | ||||||||||||
| Difficulty Paying Bills | ||||||||||||
| One Wave | 0.20*** | 0.06 | 0.16** | 0.05 | 0.20*** | 0.06 | 0.18** | 0.06 | −0.04 | 0.05 | −0.01 | 0.05 |
| Two Waves | 0.30*** | 0.07 | 0.21** | 0.06 | 0.30*** | 0.06 | 0.29*** | 0.06 | −0.04 | 0.06 | −0.07 | 0.06 |
| Utilities Shut Off | ||||||||||||
| One Wave | 0.20*** | 0.06 | 0.11* | 0.05 | 0.24*** | 0.06 | 0.18** | 0.06 | −0.05 | 0.05 | −0.10 | 0.06 |
| Two Waves | 0.40*** | 0.08 | 0.28*** | 0.08 | 0.15 | 0.08 | 0.13 | 0.08 | 0.07 | 0.07 | 0.01 | 0.07 |
| Housing Instability | ||||||||||||
| One Wave | 0.17* | 0.07 | 0.12 | 0.07 | 0.19** | 0.07 | 0.16* | 0.07 | 0.02 | 0.06 | 0.02 | 0.06 |
| Two Waves | 0.36** | 0.12 | 0.25 | 0.13 | 0.33* | 0.13 | 0.35* | 0.14 | 0.17 | 0.11 | 0.09 | 0.12 |
| Medical Hardship | ||||||||||||
| One Wave | 0.03 | 0.09 | 0.04 | 0.09 | 0.20* | 0.09 | 0.23* | 0.10 | 0.06 | 0.07 | 0.08 | 0.08 |
| Two Waves | 0.04 | 0.18 | 0.08 | 0.22 | −0.10 | 0.18 | −0.05 | 0.19 | 0.07 | 0.20 | 0.18 | 0.21 |
| Food Hardship | ||||||||||||
| One Wave | 0.24** | 0.07 | 0.14 | 0.07 | 0.25** | 0.08 | 0.21** | 0.08 | −0.02 | 0.07 | 0.00 | 0.07 |
| Two Waves | 0.15 | 0.13 | 0.10 | 0.12 | 0.20 | 0.14 | 0.20 | 0.15 | −0.16 | 0.12 | −0.11 | 0.13 |
Note: Not shown here, the models include controls for income-to-needs, age, race, mother lived with both parents at age 15, education, relationship status, multiple partner fertility, child gender, child low birth weight, mother mental and physical health, substance abuse, impulsivity, mother cognitive ability, social support, and city of residence. The residualized change models also include children's scores on earlier measures of the outcome in the model not shown here.
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