Table 3.

Predicting Waiting Time to Marriage after a Nonmarital Birth for Parent Education Groups Controlling for Individual-Level Economic Characteristics and City Fixed Effects

	Model 1	Model 2
Education
Mother less than high school (ref.)
Mother high school	1.26 *	1.24 *
Mother some college	1.38 **	1.32 *
Mother college degree	1.81 **	1.51 *
Father less than high school (ref.)
Father high school	1.06	1.03
Father some college	1.42 **	1.31 *
Father college degree	2.19 **	2.00 **
Economic circumstances
Mother employed		.77 **
Father employed		1.49 **
Mother’s income-to-poverty ratio		1.19 **
Father’s income-to-poverty ratio		.93 **
Mother’s health is fair or poor		.80
Father’s health is fair or poor		.76
Mother drug/alcohol problem in last year		.87
Father drug/alcohol problem in last year		.83
Controls
Mother enrolled in school	.85	.83
Father enrolled in school	.84	.84
Mother is white (ref.)
Mother is black	.43 **	.48 **
Mother is Hispanic	.96	1.01
Mother is not white, black, or Hispanic	.79	.80
Parents are not the same race/ethnicity	.78 *	.82
Mother never attends religious services (ref.)
Mother attends religious services regularly	1.65 **	1.64 **
Mother attends religious service occasionally	1.33 *	1.32 *
Father is more religious than mother	.80	.79
Father is less religious than mother	.73 **	.75 **
Number of children in household	1.17 **	1.21 **
Mother’s age	1.01	1.01
Father is older than mother by 5 years or more	1.04	1.05
Mother is older than father by 2 years or more	1.09	1.09
Mother has children with another partner	.70 **	.72 **
Father has children with another partner	.58 **	.61 **
Mother lived with both biological parents at age 15	1.08	1.05
Father lived with both biological parents at age 15	.90	.89
Person-months	169991	169991

Notes: Hazard ratios from Cox proportional hazard models are shown. Hazard ratios for city fixed effects not shown.

^*p < .05

^**p < .01