Appendix III.

The Great Recession and & Child Internalizing & Externalizing Behaviors and Mediators by Mothers' Marital Status: Coefficients from OLS Regression^a,b

	Child Externalizing Behaviors				Child Internalizing Behaviors
	Single		Married/Cohabiting		Single		Married/Cohabiting
	Model 1	Model 2	Model 1	Model 2	Model 1	Model 2	Model 1	Model 2
Consumer Sentiment Index	0.04	0.03	−0.06	−0.07	0.01	0.01	0.02	0.01
Local Unemployment Rate	−0.27	−0.34	−0.08	−0.05	0.01	−0.06	−0.10	−0.02
Child male	−8.64	6.224	5.26	6.62	−10.11	−9.15	2.93	3.58
Child male*CSI	0.12	0.09	−0.06	−0.06	0.13+	0.11	−0.05	−0.05
Child male*UR	0.09	0.08	−0.07	−0.22	0.07	0.09	0.07	−0.04
Mediators
Warmth		−0.22+		−0.24*		−0.06		−0.09
Observed harsh parenting		2.40***		0.72		0.37		−0.29
Physical aggression		0.19***		0.11		0.08		−0.04
Psychological aggression		0.29***		0.27***		0.14***		0.16***
Depression		1.65**		1.25*		1.01*		1.96***
Household Income		−0.01		−0.00		0.02*		0.00
Unemployed		−0.06		0.36		0.20		−0.08
		1050		698		1028		703

Notes:

⁺p<0.10

^*p<0.05

^**p<0.01

^***p<0.001

^aincludes 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.

^bmodels restricted to non-missing for observed parenting at the age nine follow-up survey