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Published in final edited form as: Ann Am Acad Pol Soc Sci. 2012 Sep 1;643(1):134–159. doi: 10.1177/0002716212442665

Table 5.

Two-Stage Least Squares Results of the Impact of Being a High School Dropout on Social Outcomes: Canada as the Counterfactual, Men and Women (standard errors)

Sample Size (sam-
ple size conditional
on being married)
English Speaker Number of
Children
Married Immigrant Spouse Spouses Speak
English at
Home
Same Country
Spouse
1. All other
  countries
 Men 59,252
(41,099)
1.572
(0.198)
0.917
(0.481)
−0.110
(0.166)
1.352
(0.284)
0.584
(0.216)
1.284
(0.237)
 Women 61,294
(40,160)
1.777
(0.202)
1.562
(0.448)
0.224
(0.165)
1.145
(0.206)
0.860
(0.191)
1.074
(0.177)
 Both 120,546
(81,259)
1.671
(0.140)
1.305
(0.328)
0.084
(0.117)
1.237
(0.168)
0.746
(0.142)
1.164
(0.142)
2. United
 Kingdom,
 Australia, New
 Zealand
 Men 4,265
(2,821)
0.604
(0.294)
2.47
(2.01)
0.944
(0.747)
−0.620
(0.621)
−0.104
(0.515)
−0.394
(0.493)
 Women 5,119
(3,432)
−0.403
(0.295)
−2.28
(2.24)
−0.859
(0.909)
−0.154
(0.617)
0.138
(0.577)
0.983
(0.576)
 Both 9,384
(6,253)
0.529
(0.224)
−0.057
(1.39)
−0.0281
(0.541)
−0.350
(0.442)
0.0218
(0.391)
0.365
(0.331)
3. Other European
 countries
 Men 12,365
(8,786)
1.487
(0.306)
0.758
(0.877)
−0.0899
(0.304)
2.60
(1.04)
3.02
(1.16)
2.14
(0.816)
 Women 13,858
(9,789)
1.241
(0.208)
0.313
(0.558)
0.409
(0.230)
1.32
(0.309)
1.68
(0.368)
1.25
(0.273)
 Both 26,223
(18,575)
1.325
(0.184)
0.502
(0.481)
0.219
(0.182)
1.70
(0.0342)
2.12
(0.402)
1.50
(0.286)
4. Puerto Rico
 Men 7,797
(4,897)
1.593
(0.211)
−0.300
(0.440)
0.382
(0.167)
0.759
(0.192)
−0.239
(0.161)
0.654
(0.165)
 Women 9,175
(5,203)
3.193
(0.607)
0.917
(0.635)
0.100
(0.250)
1.118
(0.310)
0.627
(0.248)
0.917
(0.270)
 Both 16,972
(10,100)
2.216
(0.239)
0.301
(0.356)
−0.167
(0.139)
0.881
(0.160)
0.396
(0.130)
0.739
(0.140)
5. Mexico
 Men 21,879
(15,998)
1.273
(0.091)
1.164
(0.262)
0.014
(0.086)
0.673
(0.109)
0.008
(0.106)
0.751
(0.094)
 Women 18,821
(12,972)
1.302
(0.075)
1.284
(0.211)
0.102
(0.077)
0.434
(0.079)
−0.049
(0.079)
0.518
(0.071)
 Both 40,700
(28,970)
1.292
(0.059)
1.273
(0.167)
0.075
(0.058)
0.547
(0.065)
−0.029
(0.064)
0.625
(0.057)
6. Other Latin
 American
 countries
 Men 11,950
(7,849)
2.556
(0.650)
−0.430
(0.948)
−0.631
(0.382)
3.107
(1.487)
−0.735
(0.580)
2.526
(1.159)
 Women 14,365
(8,815)
2.635
(0.539)
1.791
(0.826)
0.068
(0.297)
2.027
(0.636)
1.023
(0.414)
1.545
(0.491)
 Both 26,315
(16,664)
2.604
(0.416)
0.935
(0.605)
−0.231
(0.229)
2.447
(0.651)
0.929
(0.342)
1.927
(0.502)
Age at arrival fixed
  effects
Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Place of birth fixed
  effects
Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

NOTE: Arrived young is defined as max (0, Age at Arrival – 8); that is, it takes the value of zero if the age at arrival is eight or younger and then increases by one for each age at arrival beyond eight years. All models also include controls for age in adulthood and age squared, and an indicator variable equal to one if the individual is a woman. All models include a constant and a fixed effect for the country of birth, with the excluded category being either Canada or Puerto Rico. Each of the panels represents a different sample. Standard errors are enclosed in parentheses. Figures in bold indicate statistical significance with a marginal significance level of at least .05.