Education Differences in Intended and Unintended Fertility

. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Feb 21.

Published in final edited form as: Soc Forces. 2009 Dec;88(2):543–572. doi: 10.1353/sof.0.0278

a. Multinomial Logistic Regression Models 1–3 of Intended, Mistimed and Unwanted Births – Whites

	M1			M2			M3

	Intended	Mistimed	Unwanted	Intended	Mistimed	Unwanted	Intended	Mistimed	Unwanted

Age	.19	.04	.33	.18	.04	.34	.18	.06	.38
Age-squared	−.01^*	.00	−.01	−.01^*	.00	−.01	−.01^*	.00	−.01
Predicted Education (< high school omitted)
High school	−6.86^*	−5.68^*	−4.70	−7.08^*	−5.87^*	−4.52	−6.95^*	−5.78^*	−4.25
Some college	−11.38^*	−9.00^*	−7.03	−11.54^*	−9.16^*	−6.86	−11.28^*	−9.26^*	−6.65
College	−26.10^*	−19.89^*	−10.47	−26.29^*	−20.07^*	−10.21	−25.71^*	−20.03^*	−9.94
High school X age	.47^*	.41	.23	.49^*	.42	.22	.48^*	.42	.21
High school X age-squared	−.01^*	−.01	.00	−.01^*	−.01	.00	−.01^*	−.01	.00
Some college X age	.75^*	.62^*	.31	.76^*	.63^*	.30	.74^*	.64^*	.30
Some college X age-squared	−.01^*	−.01^*	.00	−.01^*	−.01^*	.00	−.01^*	−.01^*	.00
College X age	1.62^*	1.22^*	.46	1.64^*	1.23^*	.45	1.60^*	1.24^*	.44
College X age-squared	−.02^*	−.02^*	−.01	−.02^*	−.02^*	−.01	−.02^*	−.02^*	−.01
Currently enrolled in school	−.58^*	−.08	.35	−.58^*	−.08	.35	−.57^*	−.13	.30
Childbearing desires				.09^*	.07^*	−.11	.09^*	.07^*	−.11
Ln of current wage							.19^*	−.10	−.07
Currently employed							−.09	−.29^*	−.44^*
Imputation flag	.14	.12	−.01	.13	.11	−.01	.11	.06	.15
Intercept	−3.54	−2.31	−8.08^*	−3.61	−2.38	−7.97^*	−3.94^*	−2.31	−8.13^*

b. Multinomial Logistic Regression Models 1–3 of Intended, Mistimed and Unwanted Births – Blacks

	M1			M2			M3

	Intended	Mistimed	Unwanted	Intended	Mistimed	Unwanted	Intended	Mistimed	Unwanted

Age	.06	.25	.01	.06	.25	.01	.06	.25	.03
Age-squared	.00	−.01^*	.00	.00	−.01^*	.00	.00^*	−.01^*	.00
Predicted Education (< high school omitted)
High school	−8.24^*	1.65	−8.54^*	−8.30^*	1.57	−8.51^*	−8.31	1.39	−8.80^*
Some college	−9.03^*	−1.45	−4.43	−9.11^*	−1.55	−4.38	−9.06	−1.87	−4.67
College	−16.97^*	−8.10	−5.66	−17.01^*	−8.21	−5.62	−16.60	−8.72	−5.83
High school X age	.60^*	−.18	.58^*	.60^*	−.18	.57^*	.60	−.16	.60^*
High school X age-squared	−.01^*	.00	−.01^*	−.01^*	.00	−.01^*	−.01^*	.00	−.01^*
Some college X age	.60^*	.01	.23	.60^*	.02	.23	.60	.04	.26
Some college X age-squared	−.01^*	.00	.00	−.01^*	.00	.00	−.01^*	.00	.00
College X age	1.06^*	.52	.20	1.06^*	.53	.20	1.03	.57	.23
College X age-squared	−.02^*	−.01	.00	−.02^*	−.01	.00	−.02^*	−.01	.00
Currently enrolled in school	−.26^*	−.27	−.01	−.26^*	−.26	−.01	−.25	−.29^*	−.06
Childbearing desires				.06^*	.05^*	−.03	.06^*	.05^*	−.03
Ln of current wage							.19	−.25^*	−.16
Currently employed							−.04	−.10	−.26^*
Imputation flag	.18	−.08	−.11	.18	−.07	−.11	.32	−.02	.04
Intercept	−1.95	−3.98	−2.19	−2.01	−4.01	−2.16	−2.47	−3.52	−2.04

Notes: An imputation flag is included for person-years in which any time-varying variable is imputed using data from the previous year.

p < .05