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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Child Dev. 2012 Mar 14;83(3):1085–1101. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2012.01749.x

Table 2.

Probit Model Predicting Marital Birth from Parent Characteristics

b se df/dx
Father Characteristics
Father < HS/GED −1.540 0.208 −0.212***
Father has HS/GED −1.043 0.177 −0.169***
Father has Some College −0.713 0.156 −0.103***
Fathers’ Age 0.014 0.008 0.003+
Fathers’ Cognitive Score −0.027 0.017 −0.005
Father had Intact Family 0.065 0.098 0.012
Fathers’ Parents <HS/GED 0.145 0.127 0.028
Fathers’ Parents HS/GED 0.002 0.050 0.020
Own Fathers’ Involvement 0.012 0.051 0.000
Father Convicted of Felony −0.484 0.113 −0.076***
Father Religiosity 0.442 0.092 0.091***
Father Depressive Symptoms −0.007 0.003 −0.001*
Mother Characteristics
Mother has > Ed than Father 0.110 0.099 0.021
Mother has < Ed than Father −0.527 0.108 −0.083***
Mother is African American −0.837 0.109 −0.164***
Mother is Latino −0.465 0.123 −0.072***
Mother is Other Race −0.027 0.219 −0.036
Parents’ Race Different −0.217 0.112 −0.034+
Mother Age in Years 0.049 0.009 0.009***
Mother was Born in US −0.504 0.140 −0.118***
Mother had Intact Family 0.200 0.082 0.037*
Mother Religiosity 0.259 0.091 0.050**
Mother Verbal Ability (PPVT) 0.016 0.004 0.003***

Constant −1.918 0.576***
LR Chi2 1018.42***
Pseudo R2 0.44

Note. N = 2285; column labeled “df/dx” reports marginal effects.

+

p < .10;

*

p < .05;

**

p < .01;

***

p < .001.