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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 May 17.
Published in final edited form as: Demography. 2015 Aug;52(4):1121–1146. doi: 10.1007/s13524-015-0411-4

Table 2.

Hazard ratios for the risk of first maternal absence by cause: Children born into two-parent families

All Cause Death Migration Relocation Dissolution Formation
Male Child 0.99 (0.07) 1.30 (0.31) 1.14 (0.17) 0.66** (0.10) 1.15 (0.13) 1.51 (0.38)
Child’s Birth Order 0.91** (0.03) 0.94 (0.11) 0.89 (0.06) 0.92 (0.05) 0.90* (0.05) 1.01 (0.18)
Mother’s Age 0.99 (0.01) 1.05 (0.04) 0.98 (0.02) 1.00 (0.02) 0.97 (0.02) 0.92 (0.06)
Father’s Age 0.99 (0.00) 0.99 (0.01) 1.00 (0.01) 1.00 (0.01) 0.99 (0.01) 0.98 (0.02)
Mother’s Education 1.00 (0.01) 1.02 (0.03) 0.97 (0.02) 1.03 (0.02) 0.98 (0.02) 1.07 (0.04)
Father’s Education 0.99 (0.01) 0.97 (0.03) 0.98 (0.02) 1.00 (0.02) 1.00 (0.01) 0.99 (0.03)
Mother’s Occupation (unemployed)
 Agriculture 1.04 (0.10) 1.15 (0.38) 0.95 (0.18) 1.13 (0.23) 1.33 (0.22) 0.45** (0.14)
 Employed 1.06 (0.17) 1.37 (0.73) 1.11 (0.33) 1.08 (0.37) 0.60 (0.17) 1.52 (0.61)
Wealth Quintile (lowest)
 Low 1.14 (0.14) 1.04 (0.41) 0.96 (0.25) 1.69* (0.43) 1.12 (0.23) 0.74 (0.27)
 Middle 1.25 (0.15) 0.72 (0.29) 1.30 (0.33) 1.95** (0.49) 1.15 (0.23) 0.78 (0.28)
 High 1.11 (0.14) 0.69 (0.27) 1.03 (0.27) 1.48 (0.39) 1.24 (0.25) 0.60 (0.20)
 Highest 1.06 (0.14) 1.02 (0.41) 1.08 (0.30) 1.21 (0.35) 1.33 (0.28) 0.40* (0.18)
Father Coresident 0.30*** (0.08) 0.47 (0.26) 0.17*** (0.04) 0.27*** (0.10) 0.44** (0.13) 0.17 (0.23)
Coresident Adults 1.05** (0.02) 1.11* (0.05) 1.16*** (0.03) 0.84** (0.05) 1.08*** (0.02) 1.09 (0.06)
Children 11,556 11,556 11,556 11,556 11,556 11,556
Events 1,225 114 278 309 420 104
Deviance 19,657.36 2,451.96 5,255.13 7,078.39 7,783.09 2,169.01
Child Age Intervals y [0–10] y [0 –5], (5–10] y [0 –6], (6–10] y [0 –7], (7–10] y [0–8], (8–10] y [0–5], (5 –10]

Notes: Results are for piecewise exponential models. Robust standard errors, including weights for sibship size, are shown in parentheses. y indicates yearly age intervals for the range specified.

*

p < .05;

**

p < .01;

***

p < .001