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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Sep 23.
Published in final edited form as: Child Youth Serv Rev. 2009 Nov 1;32(8):1086–1096. doi: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2009.10.018
Predictors High school
graduation		 Employment
or college
attendance		 Any
arrest		 Daily
tobacco
use		 Depression
scale		 Optimism
scale
Any maltreatment, age 0–17 −.420** −.303** .301** .372** .464** −1.00**
Any CPC preschool .101 .157 −.058 −.039 −.043 .308
Any CPC school-age .053 −.060 −.008 −.027 .057 −.208
Sex (Female=1) .543** .593** −1.29** −.437** −.060 .800
Race/Ethnicity (Black=1) −.098 −.251 .220 .081 .188 −.258
Low birth weight −.057 .164 −.002 .088 .016 −.230
Mother ever a teen parent −.108 −.031 .028 .093 −.082 .206
Mother not employed −.228* .082 .036 .078 .239* −.414
Mother did not complete HS −.239** −.287** .216* .090 .095 −.111
4 or more children in household −.182 −.089 .147 .353** .096 −.498
Single-parent household −.124 −.057 .147 .118 −.016 −.513*
AFDC receipt −.536** −.246* .108 −.014 .104 −.017
High-poverty neighborhood −.001 −.169* −.004 .029 −.062 .116
Observations 1327 1362 1341 1062 1071 1074
Pseudo R2 .083 .071 .185 .044 -- .0281
*

p<.05;

**

p<.01

1

Adjusted R-squared statistic reported from OLS regression.