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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Adv Life Course Res. 2014 May 12;22:49–61. doi: 10.1016/j.alcr.2014.05.001

Table 2.

Childhood Economic Hardship Classes as Predictors of Membership in Latent Classes of Health Risk Trajectories (PSID 1967–2009, N=1,426).

N (%) Increasing Risk Trajectory
274 (19.2)
High Risk Trajectory
311 (21.8)
Log Odds (s.e.) Odds Ratios Log Odds Odds Ratios p-value
Intercept −1.399 (.218) .247 (odds) −1.270 (.118) .281 (odds)
Age .049 (.038) 1.050 .105 (.031) 1.111 <.01
Non-poor (ref) -- -- -- -- --
Long-term Poor .477 (.208) 1.612 .650 (.164) 1.916 <.001
Moving Into Poverty .886 (.309) 2.425 .548 (.290) 1.730 <.01
Moving Out of Poverty −.105 (.334) .900 .294 (.223) 1.342 >.05

Note: Low Risk Health Risk trajectory is the reference category (N=841, 59%).