Table 3.

Effects of Family Structure Transitions on Cognitive Achievement

	REM w/o TV	REM w/TV	FEM	MSM
	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)
A. Number of Family Structure Transitions
0 (ref.)
1	−.013 (.024)	−.007 (.024)	.010 (.028)	−.014 (.025)
2+	−.063* (.034)	−.062* (.035)	−.018 (.039)	−.058 (.039)
B. Type of Family Structure Transitions
Stable coresidential union (ref.)
Move out	−.064* (.034)	−.068** (.034)	−.067 (.042)	−.076** (.036)
Multiple transitions from coresidential union	−.105** (.049)	−.102** (.049)	−.050 (.057)	−.114** (.058)
Stable single motherhood (ref.)
Move in	.040 (.034)	.047 (.034)	.078* (.041)	.000 (.037)
Multiple transitions from single motherhood	−.022 (.048)	−.028 (.048)	.009 (.055)	−.044 (.050)

Note: N = 6,525 person-years. Robust standard errors are in parentheses. All models include survey year, its square term, child’s age, and its square term. REM and MSM also control for observed time-constant covariates.

TV = time-varying covariates.

^*p < .05;

^**p < .01;

^***p < .001 (one-tailed tests).