Table 5.

The Effects of Neighborhood Disadvantage on Adolescent Binge Drinking, by Race/Ethnicity

	African American		Hispanic		Caucasian
	b	SE	b	SE	b	SE
Intercept	−5.820***a,b	0.339	−3.457***c	0.197	−2.757***	0.258
Individual level
Age	1.368***a,b	0.136	0.443***	0.062	0.315***	0.071
Male	−0.104a	0.332	0.843***	0.263	0.573	0.451
Household salary	0.148***	0.052	0.024	0.070	0.045	0.088
Peer substance use	−0.156	0.196	0.247	0.153	0.536	0.337
Parental problem drug use	−0.428	0.532	−0.212	0.365	0.042	0.631
Parental warmth	0.019	0.070	−0.029	0.070	−0.063	0.088
Prior binge drinking	3.292***	1.018	1.798***	0.640	1.373	0.847
χ2	289.271		100.591		59.971
Neighborhood level
Disadvantage	0.065	0.259	−0.035	0.069	−0.138	0.128
Proportion of variance explained	0.001		0.004		0.027

Note: EB = empirical Bayes. Results are based on Bernoulli models using EB estimates and fixed effects for all individual-level variables; sample sizes are as follows: 644 African Americans living in 54 NCs, 870 Hispanics from 65 NCs, and 272 Caucasians from 46 NCs.

^aDifference between African American and Hispanic groups significant at p ≤ .05.

^bDifference between African American and Caucasian groups significant at p ≤ .05.

^cDifference between Hispanic and Caucasian groups significant at p ≤ .05.

^*p ≤ .10.

^**p ≤ .05.

^***p ≤ .01.