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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Popul Econ. 2012 Sep 1;26(2):507–530. doi: 10.1007/s00148-012-0440-x

Table 6.

Impacts of home-country GDP per capita on the probability and conditional amount of an activity, ATUS 2004–2008

Purchasing Education Work Assimilating Not-
assimilating
Variable: Probability of the Activity (N=64925)
GDP/Capita 0.0153 −0.0016 −0.0099 0.0049
($10,000) (0.0052) (0.0021) (0.0058) (0.0043)
English −0.0369 0.0139 0.0259 0.0025
(0.0250) (0.0123) (0.0266) (0.0192)
Official −0.0890 0.0144 −0.0465 −0.0609
 English (0.0190) (0.0094) (0.0200) (0.0189)
No English −0.0727 −0.0087 0.0257 −0.0178
(0.0121) (0.0055) (0.0127) (0.0099)
Pseudo-R2 0.0183 0.2742 0.1336 0.0799
Minutes Conditional on the Activity
GDP/Capita −1.269 5.799 −6.904 −8.654 6.724
($10,000) (1.136) (6.700) (2.634) (2.268) (2.077)
English 13.139 48.889 31.129 40.271 −38.452
(5.354) (29.862) (11.997) (10.574) (9.680)
Official 15.678 28.314 21.878 18.025 1.454
 English (4.349) (20.868) (9.214) (8.247) (7.584)
No English 12.614 37.046 27.990 34.701 −24.912
(2.530) (11.784) (5.480) (4.824) (4.485)
Adjusted-R2 0.0225 0.1507 0.0490 0.1098 0.1307
N = 30,442 4,195 25,304 46,730 64,924