Table 3.

Odds ratios from discrete-time hazard models for the risk of a first birth for men in the NSFG and NLSY

Background Characteristics	NSFG Full Sample		NSFG Comparable to NLSY Cohort		NLSY Full Sample
	Nonmarital (1)	Marital (2)	Nonmarital (3)	Marital (4)	Nonmarital (5)	Marital (6)
Race (ref. =white/other)
Black, non-Hispanic	2.78 ***	0.54 ***	3.20 ***	0.55 **	4.01 ***	0.53 ***
Hispanic	2.23 ***	1.28 *	1.85 *	1.29	2.12 ***	1.01
Foreign-born	0.91	1.20 †	0.71	1.84 **	0.91	1.08
Father’s Education (ref. = less than high school)
High school diploma	0.81 *	0.94	0.85	1.02	0.75 ***	0.88 *
Some college	0.63 **	0.83	0.89	1.02	0.70 *	0.79 **
Bachelor’s degree or higher	0.42 ***	0.64 ***	0.44 **	0.85	0.36 ***	0.81 **
Mother Has More Education Than Father	0.85	0.93	0.62 *	1.10	0.91	0.89 †
Lived With Both Parents at Age 14	0.68 ***	1.01	0.60 **	1.04	0.86 *	1.09 †
Mother Worked at Age 14/15	0.99	0.91	0.82	0.95	0.80 **	1.01
Religion Raised (ref. = Protestant)
Catholic	1.04	0.78 **	1.18	0.82	1.01	0.90 *
Other	0.55 **	0.63 **	0.89	0.84	0.78	0.82
None	0.77	0.71 *	0.75	0.97	1.12	0.72 **
Initiated Sexual Activity Before Age 16	2.09 ***	1.34 ***	2.00 ***	1.21	1.69 ***	0.89 *
Initiated Sexual Activity During the Previous Year	1.49 *	2.67 ***	1.90 †	2.32 **	0.70	1.40 *
Number of Cases (n)	43,505		14,287		57,688

Notes: Exponentiated coefficients. All models include a set of time-varying dummy variables for single years of age.

^†p < .10;

^*p < .05;

^**p < .01;

^***p <.001