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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Oct 8.
Published in final edited form as: AJS. 2015 Jan;120(4):1055–1094. doi: 10.1086/680680

Table 5.

Predicting mean SEI of neighbors at various spatial scales, Chicago 1880

Building Street Segment 1st Order Segment Group 2nd Order Segment Group
b Robust SE b Robust SE b Robust SE b Robust SE

Intercept 18.59 2.9*** 23.86 1.71*** 24.95 1.61*** 26.52 1.29***
Mulatto 0.88 1.19 −0.08 0.58 −0.46 0.45 −0.85 0.39*
Female 0.25 1.28 0.18 0.56 −0.16 0.49 0.06 0.39
Age 0.05 0.04 0.05 0.02** 0.06 0.02*** 0.06 0.01***
Marital Status (Reference: single)
Married −1.79 1.22 0.08 0.66 −0.49 0.56 −0.02 0.47
Widowed −2.5 1.6 −1.02 0.77 −1.12 0.67 −0.86 0.56
Divorced −6.91 2.59** 2.7 1.77 1.68 1.73 −0.05 1.47
Household Composition (Reference: living alone)
Servant in white-headed household 23.81 3.58*** 10.7 1.63*** 9.62 1.57*** 7.55 1.26***
Living with relatives 0.82 2.55 −1.57 1.57 −1.23 1.54 −1.97 1.23
Living with non-relatives 1.06 2.5 −1.68 1.56 −2.1 1.52 −2.52 1.2*
Birthplace (Reference: South)
Local state −2.07 1.46 −0.88 0.77 0.06 0.67 −0.06 0.58
Other places −0.08 0.77 0.01 0.41 0.23 0.31 −0.09 0.27
Highest SEI in the family 0.08 0.03** 0.03 0.01* 0.01 0.01 0 0.01
R-squared 0.091 0.155 0.191 0.197
Root MSE 13.875 8.579 7.074 6.14
Number of cases 2,004 2,785 2,797 2,806

Note:

*

P < 0.05,

**

P < 0.01,

***

P < 0.001