TABLE 5.
OLS Regression of Internalizing Behavior Problems and Math Achievement on Neighborhood Poverty, and Interaction between Neighborhood Poverty and Race/Ethnicity*
| Internalizing Behaviors (N=2,180)
|
Applied Problems Score (N=2,190)
|
|
|---|---|---|
| Net β | Net β | |
| Neighborhood Poverty (Current) | −2.01 (1.42) | −27.62*** (8.79) |
| Hispanic | −.71 (.40) | −10.57*** (1.95) |
| Black | −.61 (.60) | −5.80** (2.90) |
| Asian | −.037 (.69) | −2.68 (2.86) |
| Hispanic* Neigh. Poverty | 6.77*** (1.56) | 27.77*** (10.50) |
| Black* Neigh. Poverty | 3.23 (2.10) | 5.62 (12.00) |
| Asian* Neigh. Poverty | 2.09 (3.84) | 17.91 (16.73) |
| R2 | .14 | .25 |
*
Estimates are net of logged family income, parental marital status, parental education, child’s age, child’s sex, parental depressive status, mover status, parental nativity status, number of children and family poverty status.