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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Dev Psychol. 2015 Sep 7;51(11):1615–1629. doi: 10.1037/dev0000038

Table 1a.

The Great Recession & Child Internalizing & Externalizing Behaviors, Overall and by Marital Status: Coefficients from OLS Regressiona

Child Externalizing Behaviors Child Internalizing Behaviors


All Single Married/Cohabiting All Single Married/Cohabiting


Consumer Sentiment Index −0.01 0.02 −0.07 0.02 −0.01 0.02
Local Unemployment Rate −0.16 −0.21 −0.08 −0.09 −0.00 −0.25
Child male −3.11 −9.88+ 4.47 −3.62 −7.37 2.96
Child male*CSI 0.05 0.14* −0.04 0.04 0.11* −0.06
Child male*UR −0.01 0.05 −0.09 0.05 −0.05 0.12

2053 1262 791 2050 1252 798

Notes:

+

p<0.10

*

p<0.05

** p<0.01

*** p<0.001

a

includes city fixed effects, lagged dependent variables and the following covariates: child age, child sex, mother age, household income, mother ever depressed (baseline to 5-year survey), mother race/ethnicity, mother's education level, and mother's marital status.