Table 4.

Unadjusted means of resources and college degree attainment effects on resources (N=14,265)

	Means			Coefficients and significance of college degree (vs not) predicting each resource
	Full sample	College Degree	No College Degree
Financial
Household income-to-needs (0 – 19)	3.82	5.38	3.09	1.52	***
Personal earnings (0 – 1000000)	35168	47554	29407	13856	***
Home ownership	.40	.47	.37	.28	***
Debt-assets
Some left over	.61	.65	.58	referent
Even	.18	.13	.21	−.31	***
Left with debt	.21	.22	.21	.15	**
# financial hardships (0 – 6)	.51	.17	.66	−.37	***
No health insurance	.21	.09	.27	−.93	***
Occupation
Employment
Higher status	.33	.63	.19	−1.22	***
Lower status	.49	.25	.60	−.55	***
Unemployed/not in labor force	.18	.12	.21	referent
Job satisfaction (1 – 6)	2.15	2.07	2.19	−.08	**
Personal efficacy at work (−2.1 – 1.3)	.00	−.20	.09	−.21	***
Social
Married	.42	.42	.41	−.00
# close friends (0 – 10)	4.44	5.24	4.06	0.72	***
Religiosity (−1.6 – 1.6)	−.01	.05	−.04	.10	***
Volunteers	0.36	.53	.28	.73	***
Cognitive/Psychological
Vocabulary score (0 – 100)	50.18	65.08	43.24	8.97	***
Mastery scale (5 – 25)	19.47	20.30	19.08	0.84	***
Perceived stress (0 – 16)	4.84	4.17	5.16	−.75	***
CES-D (0 – 15)	2.61	2.09	2.85	−.55	***
Diet/activity
# activities (0 – 49)	6.39	6.85	6.19	.71	***
Sugary beverages (0 – 40)	11.10	7.43	12.81	−3.98	***
Fast food (0 – 21)	2.39	1.77	2.67	−.55	***

Source: Add Health.

Notes: Ranges for continuous variables given in parentheses. College degree effects are from OLS, logistic, and multinomial regression models controlling for selection with IPW.

^***p < .001;

^**p < .01