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Published in final edited form as: J Aging Health. 2011 Oct;23(7):1027–1049. doi: 10.1177/0898264311421524

Table 3.

Multivariate Linear regression models for the association between mother’s education and the offspring’s cognitive z-scores

	Model 1	Model 2	Model 3	Model 4	Model 5
Independent variable	Β (SE)	Β (SE)	Β (SE)	Β (SE)	Β (SE)
Intercept	2.52 (0.12)^*	2.14 (0.12)^*	2.15 (0.13)^*	2.14 (0.12)^*	2.17 (0.13)^*
Mother’s education
None (REF)
Some elementary	0.15 (0.03)^*	0.05 (0.04)	0.05 (0.04)	0.06 (0.04)	0.06 (0.04)
Completed elementary	0.26 (0.05)^*	0.07 (0.05)	0.07 (0.05)	0.09 (0.05)	0.08 (0.05)
Study (SALSA vs. MHAS)	0.01 (0.03)	−0.13 (0.03)^*
Age (in years)	−0.04 (0.002)^*	−0.04 (0.002)^*	−0.03 (0.002)^*	−0.04 (0.002)^*	−0.03 (0.002)^*
Gender (females vs. males)	0.26 (0.03)^*	0.29 (0.02)^*	0.32 (0.03)^*	0.30 (0.03)^*	0.32 (0.03)^*
Participant’s education (in years)		0.04 (0.003)^*	0.03 (0.004)^*	0.04 (0.004)^*	0.03 (0.005)^*
Migration status
Non-migrating resident of Mexico (REF)
Mexican-Return migrant			0.13 (0.05)^*	0.13 (0.07)^*	0.13 (0.07)^*
Mexican-Immigrant to the US			−0.09 (0.04)^*	−0.16 (0.05)^*	−0.13 (0.05)^*
Mexican-US born			−0.01 (0.04)	−0.23 (0.07)^*	−0.15 (0.08)^*
Interaction terms
Participant’s education x Mx-RM				−0.003 (0.01)	0.0003 (0.01)
Participant’s education x Mx-Img				0.01 (0.01)	0.01 (0.01)
Participant’s education x Mx-US born				0.02 (0.01)^*	0.02 (0.01)^*
Health variables
Diabetes (yes vs. no)			−0.12 (0.03)^*		−0.12 (0.03)^*
Stroke (yes vs. no)			−0.30 (0.06)^*		−0.29 (0.06)^*
Heart attack (yes vs. no)			0.06 (0.06)		0.06 (0.06)
Hypertension (yes vs. no)			−0.04 (0.03)		−0.04 (0.03)
Medical insurance (yes vs. no)			0.06 (0.03)		0.07 (0.03)^*
Occupation
Manual			−0.05 (0.03)		−0.06 (0.03)
Non-manual (REF)
Household income
Low			−0.09 (0.03)^*		−0.09 (0.03)^*
Medium			−0.04 (0.04)		−0.05 (0.04)
High (REF)

p-value <0.05