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Published in final edited form as: Soc Sci Med. 2012 Jun 8;75(7):1263–1270. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2012.05.018

Table 3.

Results from Oaxaca Decomposition

	Explained	Unexplained
Totals	−2.52	−4.02
Predicted BMI z-score	−1.15^***	0.06^*
Birthweight	−0.70^***	−3.99
% time in poverty,0–5 yrs	−0.53	1.81^**
Maternal age of menarche	−0.14	−7.30

Note: Total difference in mean age of menarche between African-American, whites is 6.54 months.

^*

p < 0.05,

^**

p < 0.01,

^***

p < 0.001