Table 5.

Predicted cumulative birth probabilities to age 40 by race/ethnicity and education among men in the NLSY79 full sample (N = 5,546)

	Nonmarital Birth				Marital Birth
	Total	White	Black	Hispanic	Total	White	Black	Hispanic
Total	.31	.15	.59	.34	.64	.68	.45	.69
Respondent’s Education
Less than high school	.50	.28	.75	.51	.62	.69	.42	.65
High school diploma	.37	.19	.64	.37	.63	.68	.44	.69
Some college	.28	.13	.52	.30	.60	.64	.42	.66
Bachelor’s degree or higher	.12	.06	.32	.15	.68	.70	.51	.72

Notes: Race/ethnicity-by-education cell sizes range from 116 (Hispanic bachelor’s degree or higher) to 1,499 (white high school diploma). Predicted probabilities based on estimates from Model 2 in Table 4.