Table 3.
Odds ratio of the models
| Explanatory variables | Any college attendance (N=1,379) |
4-year college attendance (N=1,034) |
BA degree (N=548) |
|---|---|---|---|
| CPC program participation | |||
| CPC preschool participation | .776 | .920 | .835 |
| CPC school-age participation | 1.103 | .744 | 1.337 |
| Sociodemographic factors: | |||
| Black | .617 | .461* | .625 |
| Female | 1.584** | 1.254 | .809 |
| Eligible for free school lunch age 8 | .878 | 1.381 | .756 |
| Mother did not complete high school age 8 | .621** | .540** | 1.071 |
| Single parent status age 8 | .914 | 1.010 | .694 |
| Four or more children in household age 8 | .754* | .886 | .754 |
| Mother less than 18 years at child’s birth | 1.050 | 1.494 | 1.098 |
| TANF or AFDC participation age 8 | .746 | .436** | .835 |
| Mother unemployed age 8 | 1.117 | 1.269 | 1.356 |
| Any child welfare history by age 3 | .695 | .117 | .000 |
| If missing five or more variables | 1.536 | 4.310** | 3.134 |
| School adjustment and family functioning: | |||
| Word analysis (age 6) | .994 | .992 | .993 |
| Classroom adjustment (ages 7–12) | 1.047* | 1.108** | 1.106* |
| Perceived cognitive competence (ages 9–12) | 1.157 | 1.257 | 1.150 |
| Troublemaking behavior (ages 9–12) | 1.047 | .977 | .626* |
| Parent involvement (ages 7–12) | 1.325** | 1.438** | .984 |
| Commitment to education: | |||
| Parent expectations for child’s education (years) | 1.045 | 1.194** | 1.253* |
| Student expected to go to college | 1.349* | 1.824* | 1.867 |
| Truancy by age 12 | .960** | .927** | .977 |
| School- based functioning: | |||
| Grade retention (ever; ages 7–14) | .713 | .723 | .981 |
| Number of school move (ages 10–14): | .936 | .741* | .892 |
| Ever enrolled in magnet schools (ages 10–14) | 1.223 | 1.067 | .679 |
| ITBS reading scores (age 14) | 1.012** | 1.031** | 1.023** |
| −2 log likelihood | 1571.48 | 684.21 | 358.03 |
| Cox and Snell R Square 2 | .185 | .278 | .129 |
| Observed rate | 39.7 | 19.5 | 13.5 |
| Percent correct for those coded 1 | 54.7 | 43.6 | 9.5 |
| Overall percent correct | 71.4 | 85.0 | 86.1 |
Note.
*
p < .05
**
p < .01