Table 4.

Marginal effects (total effects) of peers on early sexual debut by gender (N = 1,873)

	Male	SE	Female	SE
Age	−0.0107***	0.003	−0.0241***	0.005
White	−0.0232***	0.012	0.0040	0.010
Black	−0.0078	0.003	0.0056	0.015
Hispanic	−0.0033	0.005	0.0149	0.020
Grade	0.0007	0.002	0.0122***	0.004
Attend religious services	0.0012	0.003	0.0084**	0.005
PVT score	0.0001	0.0001	−0.0002	0.0002
Two biological parent household	−0.0039	0.004	−0.0065	0.005
Single mother household	−0.0006	0.004	−0.0055	0.004
Mother approves of sex	0.0059***	0.002	0.0027	0.002
Mother approves birth control use	0.0045***	0.001	0.0027	0.001
Mother is on welfare	−0.0008	0.001	−0.0002	0.001
Mother’s level of education	−0.0062	0.003	0.0044	0.009
Parent communicates about sexual activity	0.0015	0.002	0.0108***	0.003
Parents are religious	−0.00002	0.004	−0.0064	0.006
Contextual effects
Male	0.0037**	0.002	−0.0022	0.002
Age	0.0012	0.001	0.0007	0.001
White	0.0001	0.002	0.0000	0.003
Black	0.0013	0.003	−0.0001	0.004
Hispanic	−0.0047	0.003	−0.0015	0.004
Grade	−0.0015	0.001	−0.0005	0.001
Attend religious services	0.0018	0.001	−0.0045**	0.002
PVT score	−0.0001	0.00005	−0.00002	0.0001
Two biological parent household	0.0002	0.002	−0.0027	0.002
Single mother household	0.0008	0.002	−0.0037	0.003
Mother approves of sex	0.0023**	0.001	0.0007	0.001
Mother approves birth control use	−0.0007	0.001	0.0001	0.001
Mother is on welfare	−0.0004	0.0003	0.0002	0.0004
Mother’s level of education	0.0004	0.003	0.0019	0.004
Parent communicates about sexual activity	0.0009	0.001	0.0016	0.001
Parents are religious	−0.0006	0.002	0.0005	0.003

^***Significance at the 1 % level,

^**significance at the 5 % level