Table –C3.
Robustness Results
| VARIABLES | Hormonal Age Optimism (Factor) |
Teen Mother Optimism (Factor) |
Hormonal Age Optimistic About the Future |
Teen Mother Optimistic About the Future |
Hormonal Age Overall Expect Good Things |
Teen Mother Overall Expect Good Things |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Live Birth | −0.048 (0.077) |
−0.048 (0.091) |
0.251 (0.280) |
0.238 (0.346) |
−0.044 (0.098) |
−0.094 (0.115) |
| Age (at wave 4) | 0.008 (0.014) |
0.010 (0.014) |
0.021 (0.057) |
0.013 (0.055) |
0.015 (0.021) |
0.019 (0.021) |
| Conception before 15 | 0.010 (0.091) |
−0.019 (0.092) |
−0.024 (0.459) |
−0.024 (0.452) |
−0.023 (0.136) |
−0.052 (0.134) |
| Black | −0.191*** (0.056) |
−0.188*** (0.058) |
0.787*** (0.238) |
0.763*** (0.245) |
−0.208** (0.083) |
−0.198** (0.084) |
| Hispanic | −0.206*** (0.069) |
−0.205*** (0.068) |
0.880*** (0.236) |
0.878*** (0.245) |
−0.174* (0.101) |
−0.166* (0.099) |
| Smoke during pregnancy | 0.153*** (0.058) |
0.155** (0.060) |
−0.611** (0.265) |
−0.590** (0.274) |
0.221** (0.095) |
0.224** (0.093) |
| Married | −0.048 (0.060) |
−0.050 (0.061) |
0.540** (0.230) |
0.552** (0.229) |
−0.027 (0.085) |
−0.028 (0.086) |
| Maternal Education | −0.017 (0.012) |
−0.018 (0.012) |
0.191*** (0.049) |
0.184*** (0.048) |
−0.027* (0.015) |
−0.028* (0.015) |
| Parent in Household (dummy) | −0.049 (0.043) |
−0.035 (0.047) |
−0.051 (0.195) |
−0.023 (0.210) |
0.002 (0.070) |
0.025 (0.073) |
| Hormone Median | −0.071 (0.246) |
−0.204 (0.621) |
0.011 (0.319) |
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| Hormone × Live Birth (interaction) | 0.143 (0.263) |
−0.331 (0.736) |
0.053 (0.354) |
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| Teen Mom | −0.082 (0.156) |
−0.054 (0.419) |
−0.229 (0.174) |
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| (Missing) Teen mom | −0.058 (0.068) |
0.014 (0.298) |
−0.104 (0.091) |
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| Teen Mom × Live Birth (interaction) | 0.044 (0.153) |
0.075 (0.459) |
0.205 (0.169) |
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| Constant | 0.209 (0.420) |
0.193 (0.406) |
10.644*** (1.760) |
10.881*** (1.722) |
2.139*** (0.645) |
2.085*** (0.642) |
| Observations | 688 | 694 | 691 | 697 | 690 | 696 |
| R-squared | 0.052 | 0.053 | 0.077 | 0.069 | 0.035 | 0.038 |
Robust standard errors in parentheses
***
p<0.01,
**
p<0.05,
*
p<0.10