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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Nov 12.
Published in final edited form as: Soc Forces. 2011 Sep 1;90(1):41–63. doi: 10.1093/sf/90.1.41

Table 4.

Predicting Waiting Time to Marriage after a Nonmarital Birth for Parent Education Groups controlling for Labor Market Conditions by Education Group and Sex

Model 1 Model 2 Model 3 Model 4 Model 5 Model 6
Mother less than high school (ref.)
Mother high school 1.24 * 1.26 * 1.27 * 1.04 1.26 1.08
Mother some college 1.32 * 1.33 * 1.33 * 1.04 1.34 1.07
Mother college degree 1.51 * 1.52 * 1.52 * 1.17 1.53 1.21
Father less than high school (ref.)
Father high school 1.03 .94 .87 1.03 1.03 .88
Father some college 1.31 * 1.15 1.02 1.31 * 1.31 * 1.04
Father college degree 2.00 ** 1.72 ** 1.41 2.01 ** 2.00 ** 1.45
Male unemployment rate by education .98
Male employment-to-population ratio by education 1.02 ** 1.02 **
Female unemployment rate by education .96 ** .97 *
Female employment-to-population ratio by education 1.00

Person-months 169991 169991 169991 169991 169991 169991

Notes: Hazard ratios from Cox proportional hazard models are shown. All models include individual-level control variables, economic characteristics, and city fixed effects, but hazard ratios for these variables are not displayed.

*

p < .05

**

p < .01