Table 3.

Balance Among Unmatched and Matched Samples

	Onetime runaway-homeless episode			Repeated runaway-homeless episode
	2,497	1,644	366	2,440	1,265	244
N (MIN)	Unmatched	Matched with replacement	Matched without replacement	Unmatched	Matched with replacement	Matched without replacement
Age 12	−0.86	−0.12	0.14	−1.06	−0.18	−0.11
Female	3.11	0.07	−0.15	3.03	0.13	−0.49
African American	−0.27	−0.22	0.09	0.26	−0.33	0.01
Hispanic	−0.17	0.26	−0.12	−0.32	0	−0.01
Asian	0.33	−0.12	0	−0.26	−0.14	−0.75
Native American	—a	—a	—a	−0.82	−1.01	0
Family poverty level: 50%–100%	1.48	0.09	−0.19	0.71	0.03	0.08
Family poverty level: 101%–150%	−0.6	0.16	0.08	0.81	−0.04	0.09
Family poverty level: 151%–200%	0.93	0.19	0.75	0.68	0.01	−0.09
Family poverty level: Above 200%	−1.14	−0.24	−0.29	−1.8	0.07	0.02
Mother’s education: Less than HS	0.79	0.04	−0.02	1.33	0.03	0
Mother’s education: HS Graduates	1.07	−0.08	0.16	−0.43	−0.09	0.06
Father’s education: Less than HS	0.52	0.06	0.04	1	−0.04	−0.25
Father’s education: HS Graduates	0.58	−0.15	0.2	−1.25	−0.06	0.19
% of Whites in the county: 1990	1.01	0.12	0.01	0.15	0.47	0.05
Parent homeowner	1.77	0.09	0.13	1.54	−0.02	0.02
Rural residence 97	−1.41	0.26	−0.07	0.03	0	−0.34
Single mother/mother figure	0.54	0.16	−0.08	1.57	0	0.22
Single father/father figure	−1.2	0.04	−0.06	−0.4	−0.26	0.32
N of children under age 18 in household	−0.37	−0.02	−0.09	1.51	−0.15	0.33
Youth’s report on relationship with mother	−2.54	−0.32	0.24	−4.65	−0.25	−0.27
Youth’s report on relationship with father	−2.63	−0.15	−0.15	−4.25	−0.1	−0.01
Mother parenting styles: permissive	−2.12	0.01	0.27	−0.89	−0.17	−0.24
Mother parenting styles: authoritarian	1.05	0.08	−0.13	2.4	0.23	0.11
Mother parenting styles: authoritative	−0.93	−0.2	0.03	−1.86	−0.11	0.01
Father parenting styles: permissive	−2.19	0.34	0.19	−2.17	−0.13	0.07
Father parenting styles: authoritarian	1.46	0.08	0.06	3.59	0.31	−0.04
Father parenting styles: authoritative	−0.47	−0.43	−0.08	−2.64	−0.08	0.01
Monitoring youth reported by father	−2.08	−0.15	0.01	−3.19	0.03	−0.03
Monitoring youth reported by mother	−2.35	−0.2	−0.38	−3.91	−0.07	0.15
Behavior Scale Youth Report	4.43	0.09	−0.03	4.23	0.18	0.09
Behavior Scale Parent Report	3.52	0.28	0.02	4.68	0.31	0.37
Substance Use index 1997	6.06	0.48	0.18	4.69	0.35	−0.13
Average t-statistics	0.23	0.02	0.02	0.07	−0.03	−0.02

^aDue to the small sample size, it was dropped from the analysis.