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Published in final edited form as: Am Sociol Rev. 2016 Oct 27;81(6):1276–1304. doi: 10.1177/0003122416673029

Table 6.

Growth Curve for Neighborhood Percent Non-Hispanic White, by Race: Panel Study of Income Dynamics, 1971-2011

White Black
Model 1 Model 2 Model 3 Model 4
Fixed Effects
For Intercept (initial status)
Intercept 51.24***
(3.35)
50.75***
(3.46)
13.29***
(1.52)
5.19*
(2.55)
Neighborhood percent non-Hispanic White in adolescence 0.41***
(0.04)
0.41***
(0.04)
0.59***
(0.04)
0.57***
(0.04)
For Linear Growth Rate
Intercept −1.36***
(0.27)
−1.36***
(0.27)
0.57***
(0.13)
0.58***
(0.13)
Neighborhood percent non-Hispanic White in adolescence 0.01***
(0.00)
0.01***
(0.00)
−0.01***
(0.00)
−0.01***
(0.00)
For Quadratic Growth Rate
Intercept 40.11***
(6.13)
40.28***
(6.14)
−11.09***
(3.09)
−11.28***
(3.39)
Neighborhood percent non-Hispanic White in adolescence −0.53***
(0.07)
−0.50***
(0.07)
0.18**
(0.06)
0.17**
(0.06)
Control Variables
Married/cohabiting at t 0.62**
(0.26)
3.43***
(0.61)
Number of children under 18 at t 0.38***
(0.11)
0.01
(0.23)
Years of education at t −0.09
(0.07)
0.23
(0.18)
Family income at t-1 0.00
(0.00)
0.02
(0.01)
Home ownership at t 1.06***
(0.23)
−0.52
(0.65)
Family income in adolescence 0.01
(0.01)
0.08**
(0.03)
Moved to different tract in same county between t-1 and t 0.83***
(0.20)
0.90**
(0.43)
Moved to different county between t-1 and t 0.43
(0.28)
7.92***
(0.83)

Random Effects
Level-1: within-person 75.41*** 75.20*** 312.89*** 310.96***
Level-2: in initial status 336.02*** 336.77*** 472.06*** 434.35***
Level-2: in rate of change 0.70*** 0.70*** 1.30*** 1.31***

Goodness-of-fit
AIC 119795.6 119740.8 97856.1 97714.2
BIC 119895.5 119902.3 97900.0 97816.6

N of person-periods 16,141 16,141 11,096 11,096
N of persons 696 696 518 518

Note: Sample consists of black and white Panel Study of Income Dynamics respondents who established their own household between 1970 and 1979. Standard errors are in parentheses. Coefficients and standard errors for the quadratic growth rate are multiplied by 1000.

*

p < .05;

**

p < .01;

***

p < .001 (two-tailed tests).