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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 May 31.
Published in final edited form as: Soc Sci Med. 2014 Jul 31;127:63–73. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.07.056

Table 3.

Education, Unemployment Rates When Aged 18 and Outcomes

(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6)
Dependent variables Income Quartile
(1:highest -
4:lowest)		 General Poor
Health
(Yes = 1)		 Life dissatisfaction
(Yes = 1)		 Obesity
(Yes = 1)		 Smoker
(Yes = 1)		 Daily drinker
(Yes = 1)
Panel A: Mean UR at age 17–19
Mean UR at age 17–19 1.314**
(0.352)
[0.890]		 0.235*
(0.130)
[0.160]		 0.285**
(0.071)
[0.120]		 0.244*
(0.128)
[0.099]		 0.305**
(0.126)
[0.203]		 0.178*
(0.103)
[0.107]
(Education - 9)* UR at 18 −0.395**
(0.054)
[0.154]		 −0.047**
(0.015)
[0.018]		 −0.059**
(0.009)
[0.017]		 −0.035**
(0.016)
[0.012]		 −0.069**
(0.016)
[0.034]		 −0.013
(0.015)
[0.017]
Observations 50,291 27,927 85,773 17,451 47,621 19,290
R-squared 0.261 0.063 0.170 0.035 0.073 0.066
Panel B: UR at age 18
UR at age 18 1.307**
(0.327)
[0.794]		 0.147
(0.120)
[0.156]		 0.226**
(0.069)
[0.108]		 0.249**
(0.120)
[0.101]		 0.267**
(0.116)
[0.185]		 0.147
(0.094)
[0.091]
(Education - 9)* UR at 18 −0.384**
(0.051)
[0.142]		 −0.041**
(0.015)
[0.017]		 −0.054**
(0.009)
[0.016]		 −0.031**
(0.015)
[0.012]		 −0.064**
(0.015)
[0.032]		 −0.009
(0.015)
[0.015]
Observations 50,215 27,723 85,125 17,334 47,317 19,127
R-squared 0.261 0.063 0.171 0.036 0.073 0.066

Note: see Table 2 notes for sample and specification details.

**

p<0.05,

*

p<0.1.