. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Dec 22.

Published in final edited form as: Soc Forces. 2010 Dec;89(2):659–683. doi: 10.1353/sof.2010.0088

Table 3.

OLS Regression Estimates Relating Age 16 Aspirations to Hourly Wages at Age 26

Variables	Women				Men
Variables	Model 1		Model 2		Model 1		Model 2

	b	t-ratio	b	t-ratio	b	t-ratio	b	t-ratio
Occupational Ambitions (Age 16)
Uncertain (vs. Professional job)	−.041	−3.04^**	−.025	−2.09^*	−.046	−2.92^**	−.046	−3.08^**
Multiple Occupations	−.043	−1.74	−.037	−1.53	−.086	−1.99^*	−.068	−1.65
Non-Professional Job	−.042	−4.01^***	−.028	−2.87^**	−.002	−.17	−.002	−.18
Not to Work	−.072	−2.99^**	−.047	−2.28^*	−.067	−1.31	−.058	−1.07
Refusal	−.004	−.06	−.021	−.67	.000	.01	.006	.28
Background Factors (age 14)
Parent(s) Education	−.001	−.13	−.006	−1.75	−.005	−.89	−.009	−1.62
Family Income	.015	6.28^***	.011	5.61^***	.015	5.22^***	.014	5.31^***
Parent(s) Educational Expectations	.006	3.30^***	.003	1.78	.002	.99	.000	.12
Black (vs. white)	.003	.17	.010	.57	−.061	−2.94^**	−.047	−2.63^**
Hispanic	.031	2.13^*	.050	3.85^***	−.020	−1.04	−.005	−.27
Asian	.036	1.88	.039	2.23^*	.033	2.00^*	.035	2.15^*
American Indian	−.050	−1.52	−.024	−1.03	−.024	−.63	−.001	−.04
Single Parent (vs. 2-parent)	−.009	−.79	.004	.44	.010	.89	.018	1.66
Academic Behaviors (age 16)
Academic Ability	.039	4.67^***	.016	2.11^*	.012	1.81	.002	.39
Teacher-rated effort	.001	.45	−.006	−2.62^**	.005	1.73	.000	.15
Educational Attainment (age 26)
< High School (vs. high school/GED)			−.063	−2.94^**			−.055	−1.71
Some College			.027	2.02^*			−.013	−1.08
Vocational/Technical			.034	2.22^*			−.021	−.99
Associates			.024	1.15			.009	.53
Baccalaureate			.112	8.18^***			.048	3.25^**
Masters, Ph.D., or Professional			.193	9.53^***			.135	5.71^***
Current Student Status			−.019	−2.06^*			−.044	−3.60^***
Work Experience and Current Job Hours (age 26)
Employed 6+mo. in past 2yrs (vs. < 6 mo.)			.051	3.09^**			.072	3.99^***
Employed 50+wks in past yr (vs. < 50 wks.)			.069	8.44^***			.042	3.90^***
Part-time hrs in current job (vs. full-time)			.017	1.50			.017	.67
Professional job (vs. non-professional)			.069	5.02^***			.077	5.13^***
Family Roles (age 26)
Reside in parental home (vs. not w/parents)			−.031	−2.69^**			−.060	−3.24^**
Married (vs. Single)			.006	.77			.018	1.58
Cohabiting			−.019	−.48			.004	.15
Separated, Divorced, or Widowed			.042	2.31^*			−.006	−.25
One Child (vs. none)			−.024	−1.94			−.005	−.37
Two Children			−.029	−2.05^*			−.008	−.48
Three or more children			−.062	−3.31^***			.006	.17
Intercept	.880		.798		.994		.908

Sample Size	4,515				4,352
R² (ranging across the five datasets)	.138 to .146		.249 to .255		.071 to .077		.139 to .143

Note.

p < .05,

^**

p < .01,

^***

p < .001