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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Marriage Fam. 2017 Jan 24;79(3):705–722. doi: 10.1111/jomf.12392

Table 3.

Does Giving Private Financial Transfers Predict Material Hardship? OLS and Individual Fixed-Effects Regressions

Model 1: Pooled Regression Model 2: Individual Fixed Effects Model 3: Individual Fixed Effects
Any Hardship Hardship Domains Any Hardship Hardship Domains Any Hardship Hardship Domains
Logit OLS Logit OLS Logit OLS
β (SE) OR β(SE) β (SE) OR β(SE) β (SE) OR β(SE)
Gave PFT 0.37** (0.05) 1.44 0.17** (0.02) 0.18** (0.06) 1.20 0.05* (0.02) 0.25** (0.06) 1.28 0.07** (0.02)
Household income −0.01** (0.00) 0.99 −0.00** (0.00)
Education
 Less than high school 0.74** (0.15) 2.09 0.29** (0.07)
 High school 0.55** (0.14) 1.74 0.15** (0.05)
 Some college 0.76** (0.13) 2.14 0.25** (0.06)
Relationship Status
 Married −0.42** (0.07) 0.66 −0.21** (0.04)
 Cohabiting 0.12* (0.05) 1.12 0.05+ (0.03)
Age 0.00 (0.00) 1.00 0.00 (0.00)
Race/Ethnicity
 Non-Hispanic Black 0.05 (0.09) 1.05 −0.08+ (0.05)
 Hispanic −0.14 (0.10) 0.87 −0.12* (0.05)
 Other 0.07 (0.13) 1.08 0.04 (0.06)
Immigrant −0.28* (0.14) 0.76 −0.17* (0.07)
# of kids in household 0.07** (0.02) 1.07 0.03** (0.01)
Mother lived with both parents at age 15 −0.22** (0.06) 0.80 −0.11** (0.03)
Household income −0.01** (0.00) 0.99 −0.00** (0.00)
Married −0.12 (0.10) 0.89 −0.09** (0.03)
Cohabiting −0.05 (0.07) 0.95 −0.04+ (0.02)
Social support −0.20** (0.02) 0.82 −0.08** (0.01)
Constant −0.75** (0.17) 0.47** (−4.30) 0.67** (0.09) 0.71** (0.04) 1.14** (0.05)
Observations 15,816 15,816 8,353 15,816 8,353 15,816
R-squared 0.090 0.013 0.035
Number of individuals 4,600 4,600 2,271 4,600 2,271 4,600

Note: All non-time varying covariates are measured at the birth of the child. All models include measures of time not shown. The models without individual fixed-effects also include city fixed-effects and are double clustered at the individual and city level.

**

p<0.01,

*

p<0.05,

+

p<0.1