Table 6.

Comparison of Regression Results Using FFCWS Mothers Only Sample and CPS data, using only variables available in CPS: Marginal Effects

	Child Support Order		Child Support Receipt		In-kind Support
	FFCWS	CPS	FFCWS	CPS	FFCWS	CPS
Mother noncitizen	−0.240^***	−0.189^***	−0.134^***	−0.138^***	−0.084	−0.063
Mother noncitizen	(0.041)	(0.037)	(0.029)	(0.036)	(0.070)	(0.039)
TANF	0.103^***	−0.016	0.017	−0.039	−0.025	−0.077^*
TANF	(0.025)	(0.033)	(0.021)	(0.032)	(0.027)	(0.033)
Noncitizen mothers on TANF	0.102	−0.089	0.136	0.035	−0.243	0.102
Noncitizen mothers on TANF	(0.150)	(0.135)	(0.164)	(0.135)	(0.162)	(0.064)
SNAP	0.015	0.056^*	−0.011	0.018	−0.052	−0.001
SNAP	(0.027)	(0.024)	(0.022)	(0.025)	(0.029)	(0.021)
Noncitizen mothers on SNAP	0.084	0.195^*	0.052	0.240^**	0.059	−0.086
Noncitizen mothers on SNAP	(0.138)	(0.077)	(0.128)	(0.088)	(0.110)	(0.100)
Mother employed	0.014	0.011	0.007	−0.005	0.032	0.017
Mother employed	(0.022)	(0.018)	(0.018)	(0.018)	(0.024)	(0.016)
Household income	−0.002^**	0.001	−0.000	0.001	0.001^*	0.001^*
Household income	(0.001)	(0.001)	(0.000)	(0.001)	(0.001)	(0.001)
Mother over 30 years old	−0.018	0.076^***	0.012	0.049^**	0.036	0.075^***
Mother over 30 years old	(0.028)	(0.018)	(0.024)	(0.018)	(0.030)	(0.017)
Mother has more than high school education	0.046^*	0.109^***	0.043^*	0.110^***	0.007	0.049^*
Mother has more than high school education	(0.021)	(0.022)	(0.017)	(0.021)	(0.023)	(0.021)
Mother is Hispanic	−0.013	−0.089^***	−0.053^*	−0.082^***	0.016	−0.024
Mother is Hispanic	(0.036)	(0.025)	(0.026)	(0.024)	(0.039)	(0.023)
Mother is Black	−0.011	−0.140^***	−0.057^*	−0.150^***	0.075^*	−0.056^**
Mother is Black	(0.030)	(0.020)	(0.024)	(0.019)	(0.034)	(0.019)
Mother is of other race	0.050	−0.122^***	0.078	−0.143^***	0.181^***	−0.089^*
Mother is of other race	(0.074)	(0.035)	(0.065)	(0.032)	(0.050)	(0.037)
Child support enforcement index	0.002^***	0.001^*	0.001^**	0.000	−0.000	0.000
Child support enforcement index	(0.000)	(0.000)	(0.000)	(0.000)	(0.000)	(0.000)
State generosity toward noncitizens	−0.026	−0.027	−0.017	−0.004	0.056^*	0.008
State generosity toward noncitizens	(0.023)	(0.016)	(0.019)	(0.015)	(0.025)	(0.014)
ANES anti-immigrant sentiment	0.255	−0.030	0.005	−0.004	0.156	−0.013
ANES anti-immigrant sentiment	(0.170)	(0.025)	(0.142)	(0.025)	(0.182)	(0.022)
N	2389	4798	2263	4798	1944	3595
Chi-squared	151.085	224.668	55.746	193.559	62.843	119.574
P	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000

Source: Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Survey, the Baseline, Age 1 and Age 3 Data.

The Current Population Survey – Child Support Supplement, 2001.

Notes: Marginal effects represent the discrete change from the base level holding all other variables at the means.

The Delta-method standard error for the marginal effects is shown in parentheses.

p<0.05,

^**

p<0.01,

^***

p<0.001