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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 1b.

The Great Recession & Child Drug/Alcohol Use & Vandalism, Overall and by Marital Status: Odds Ratios from Logistic Regressiona

Drug/Alc. Use Vandalism


All Single Married/Cohabiting All Single Married/Cohabiting


Consumer Sentiment Index 0.95 0.98 0.87 0.98 1.01 0.90
Local Unemployment Rate 1.03 1.27* 0.69 1.04 0.94 1.21
Child male 0.05 0.00+ 0.88 0.05 0.30 0.00+
Child male*CSI 1.05 1.14** 0.97 1.07+ 1.04 1.14+
Child male*UR 1.08 0.88 1.51 0.91 0.88 0.93

3143 1932 1211 3311 2072 1239

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.