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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Twin Res Hum Genet. 2013 May 1;16(3):679–689. doi: 10.1017/thg.2013.23

Table 2.

Survival models with teenage childbirth predicting poor offspring outcomes

Model 1a Model 2a Model 3a Model 4b
b SE b SE b SE b SE
Offspring criminal convictions
Violent criminal convictions
 Teenage childbirth (vs. adult childbirth) 0.524* 0.009 0.266* 0.014 0.321* 0.014 −0.012 0.025
 Birth year (since 1960) 0.013* <0.001 0.013* <0.001 −0.025* 0.002
 Teenage childbirth* year of birth 0.025* 0.001 0.017* 0.001 −0.003 0.002
Other nonviolent convictions
 Teenage childbirth (vs. adult childbirth) 0.300* 0.007 0.127* 0.011 0.144* 0.011 −0.042 0.018
 Birth year (since 1960) −0.023* <0.001 −0.026* <0.001 −0.043* 0.002
 Teenage childbirth* year of birth 0.016* 0.001 0.012* 0.001 0.005 0.002
Offspring poor academic performance
Low academic attainment
 Teenage childbirth (vs. adult childbirth) 0.785* 0.009 0.393* 0.030 0.425* 0.031 0.103 0.063
 Birth year (since 1960) 0.005* <0.001 0.011* <0.001 −0.050* 0.002
 Teenage childbirth* year of birth 0.021* 0.002 0.011* 0.002 0.002 0.003
Low academic achievement
 Teenage childbirth (vs. adult childbirth) 0.257* 0.006 0.135* 0.010 0.089* 0.010 0.010 0.015
 Birth year (since 1960) 0.036* <0.001 0.047* <0.001 0.020* 0.001
 Teenage childbirth* year of birth 0.015* 0.001 0.013* 0.006 <0.001 0.001
Offspring substance-related outcomes
Substance-related hospitalizations
 Teenage childbirth (vs. adult childbirth) 0.346* 0.013 0.374* 0.021 0.315* 0.021 0.210* 0.034
 Birth year (since 1960) 0.065* 0.001 0.058* 0.001 0.039* 0.003
 Teenage childbirth* year of birth 0.003* 0.001 −0.002* 0.001 −0.014* 0.003
Drug-related convictions
 Teenage childbirth (vs. adult childbirth) 0.461* 0.013 0.447* 0.021 0.508* 0.021 0.368* 0.036
 Birth year (since 1960) 0.053* 0.001 0.044* 0.001 0.014* 0.003
 Teenage childbirth* year of birth 0.007* 0.001 −0.002 0.001 −0.033* 0.003
Driving-related convictions
 Teenage childbirth (vs. adult childbirth) 0.429* 0.010 0.251* 0.015 0.288* 0.014 0.099* 0.028
 Birth year (since 1960) −0.027* 0.000 −0.031* 0.001 −0.063* 0.003
 Teenage childbirth* year of birth 0.018* 0.001 0.010* 0.001 −0.014* 0.003

Note.

a

Based on N=3,162,239

b

Based on a fixed effects model examining differentially exposed siblings (N=485,259). Parameters are distributed as logits.

*

p<0.05