Table 2.

Multinomial Logit Models Predicting Mothers’ Likelihood of Entering Cohabitation and Marriage between 1999 and 2000/01

	MODEL 1				MODEL 2
	Cohabiting vs. Remain Single		Married vs. Remain Single		Cohabiting vs. Remain Single		Married vs. Remain Single
	RRR	Z Statistic	RRR	Z Statistic	RRR	Z Statistic	RRR	Z Statistic
Employment and Economic Characteristics
Not employed	1.20	0.55	0.72	−0.69	1.05	0.10	0.36*	−2.06
Nonstandard schedule					0.72	−0.55	0.08*	−2.23
Perceived economic instability					0.72	−0.97	0.27*	−2.01
Male community employment rate					0.48	−0.35	0.48	−0.36
Caregiving Responsibilities
Mother’s caregiving responsibility for disabled children or adult	0.71	−0.60	1.69	0.76	0.69	−0.65	1.85	0.75
Number of children in the household	0.87	−1.15	1.43†	1.82	0.87	−1.45	1.31	1.59
Children under age 6 years in the household	1.59	1.14	0.29*	−2.12	1.55	1.00	0.31*	−2.40
Access to enough child care support	0.50*	−2.15	0.45	−1.60	0.49*	−2.59	0.38	−1.60
Human Capital and Demographic Characteristics
HS Diploma or GED	1.39	0.75	1.58	0.55	1.38	0.68	1.54	0.60
Some or all of college/tech school	1.84	1.59	5.55*	2.18	1.83	1.45	5.32†	1.87
Woodcock-Johnson score at Wave 2	1.03***	3.71	1.03**	2.77	1.03***	4.24	1.03*	2.04
Ongoing health problems	0.74	−0.73	0.06***	−4.40	0.78	−0.54	0.05***	−4.61
Months on welfare in 2-year period up to wave 1 interview	0.99	−0.65	0.96	−1.59	0.99	−0.58	0.96	−1.63
Mother and biological father previously married	1.00	−0.01	1.74	0.80	1.06	0.14	2.96†	1.84
Mother and biological father previously cohabit	1.88†	1.79	1.71	0.89	1.86†	1.74	1.63	0.83
Age	0.90	−0.73	1.21	0.89	0.91	−1.04	1.29	1.28
Age Squared	1.00	0.65	1.00	−1.21	1.00	0.9	0.99	−1.54
Hispanic	2.05†	1.88	1.44	0.90	2.19*	2.18	1.52	0.94
Non-Hispanic White	1.98	1.26	1.75	0.85	2.34	1.16	2.23	1.46
Lives in Boston	2.89**	2.68	0.35*	−2.03	3.02***	3.73	0.42*	−2.00
Lives in Chicago	1.89	1.20	1.52	0.93	1.93	1.47	1.94	1.45
N	1125				1123
Log Pseudolikelihood	−581.35				−559.08

Note. In Model 2, standard errors are adjusted for clustering.

^†p < .10

^*p < .05

^**p < .01

^***p < .001 (two-tailed tests)