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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 5.

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

All Cause Death Migration Relocation Formation
Male Child 0.93 (0.06) 0.87 (0.28) 1.09 (0.12) 0.88 (0.15) 0.80 (0.09)
Child’s Birth Order 1.02 (0.04) 1.35 (0.22) 1.02 (0.06) 1.01 (0.09) 0.89 (0.07)
Mother’s Age 0.92*** (0.01) 0.97 (0.05) 0.91*** (0.01) 0.96 (0.02) 0.89*** (0.02)
Mother’s Education 1.00 (0.01) 0.99 (0.04) 1.01 (0.02) 1.02 (0.03) 0.99 (0.02)
Mother’s Occupation (unemployed)
 Agriculture 1.19 (0.11) 0.44 (0.22) 1.08 (0.16) 1.06 (0.25) 1.53** (0.23)
 Employed 1.29** (0.12) 1.36 (0.57) 1.07 (0.16) 1.49 (0.31) 1.40* (0.20)
Wealth Quintile (lowest)
 Low 1.05 (0.12) 0.79 (0.41) 0.91 (0.17) 1.12 (0.32) 1.03 (0.19)
 Middle 1.04 (0.12) 1.11 (0.59) 1.16 (0.20) 1.07 (0.29) 0.88 (0.16)
 High 1.09 (0.12) 0.85 (0.54) 1.25 (0.22) 1.08 (0.29) 0.95 (0.17)
 Highest 1.00 (0.12) 1.58 (0.75) 0.91 (0.17) 1.05 (0.30) 0.95 (0.17)
Coresident Adults 0.94*** (0.01) 1.01 (0.06) 0.98 (0.02) 0.69*** (0.05) 0.99 (0.02)
Children 5,805 5,805 5,805 5,805 5,805
Events 1,099 57 448 195 399
Deviance 10,470.55 889.46 4,937.97 2,631.14 4,467.98
Child Age Intervals y [0–8], (8–10] y [0–1], (1–3], (3–10] y [0–7], (7–10] y [0–8], (8–10] y [0 –6], (6–10]

Notes: Results are from 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