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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jul 7.
Published in final edited form as: AJS. 2014;119(5):1221–1278. doi: 10.1086/675411

Table A1. Coefficients from Discrete Choice Models, Panel Study of Income Dynamics.

Variable Coefficient Estiamates

Beta Std. Error P-Value

Dij 5.983 0.519 0.000
Racial Factors
  %black −0.421 0.641 0.512
  %black2 −3.083 0.652 0.000
  black*%black 5.146 0.725 0.000
  black*%black2 −0.583 0.721 0.419
  Hispanic*%black 0.359 0.891 0.687
  Hispanic*%black2 0.223 1.157 0.847
  %Hispanic −2.144 0.906 0.018
  %Hispanic2 −0.364 1.145 0.750
  Hispanic*%Hispanic 8.121 1.078 0.000
  Hispanic*%Hispanic2 −3.704 1.299 0.004
  Black*%Hispanic 1.386 1.107 0.211
  Black*%Hispanic2 −0.765 1.484 0.606
  %Asian −1.611 0.667 0.016
  %Asian2 −1.049 1.548 0.498
  Asian*%Asian 14.985 2.602 0.000
  Asian*%Asian2 −17.687 4.865 0.000
  %white2 −2.242 0.258 0.000
  white*%white2 2.010 0.313 0.000
  Dij*%black −3.002 1.226 0.014
  Dij*%black2 6.126 1.529 0.000
  Dij*black*%black −1.935 1.055 0.067
  Dij*black*%black2 −1.940 1.603 0.226
  Dij*Hispanic*%black 4.367 2.219 0.049
  Dij*Hispanic*%black2 −2.746 4.274 0.521
  Dij*%Hispanic −1.488 1.572 0.344
  Dij*%Hispanic2 2.698 2.460 0.273
  Dij*Hispanic*%Hispanic 0.102 1.357 0.940
  Dij*Hispanic*%Hispanic2 −1.666 2.488 0.503
  Dij*black*%Hispanic 3.036 1.712 0.076
  Dij*black*%Hispanic2 −3.160 3.369 0.348
  Dij*%Asian 5.805 1.587 0.000
  Dij*%Asian2 −10.838 3.816 0.005
  Dij*Asian*%Asian −12.251 5.176 0.018
  Dij*Asian*%Asian2 22.061 12.896 0.087
  Dij*%white2 0.350 0.534 0.512
  Dij*white*%white2 −0.989 0.208 0.000
Economic Factors
  IncomeRatio −1.215 0.121 0.000
  IncomeRatio2 0.002 0.000 0.000
  Dij*IncomeRatio 0.479 0.124 0.000
  Dij*IncomeRatio2 −0.016 0.010 0.123
  PriceRatio 2.075 0.693 0.003
  PriceRatio2 −4.654 1.092 0.000
  Dij*PriceRatio −3.858 1.370 0.005
  Dij*PriceRatio2 5.176 2.021 0.010
  MedianIncome −0.031 0.003 0.000
  MedianIncome2 0.000 0.000 0.000
  Dij*MedianIncome 0.031 0.005 0.000
  Dij*MedianIncome2 0.000 0.000 0.055
  N 951719
  Log Likelihood −39308

Note: Observation unit is person-years. IncomeRatio is the ratio of household income to neighborhood median income; PriceRatio is the ratio of the 20th percentile monthly rent in the neighborhood to monthly household income (1/12th of annual income). Median income is in $1,000s.