Table 5.

P -values from Hypothesis Tests of the Total, Direct, and Indirect Effects of Respondents’ Past Work and Family Experiences

	Men			Women
Outcome in 2004	Latent Class Analysis	Latent Class Growth Models	Growth Mixture Models	Latent Class Analysis	Latent Class Growth Models	Growth Mixture Models
Household Net Worth ($ln)
Total effect of trajectories	< 0.01	< 0.01	< 0.01	< 0.01	< 0.01	< 0.01
Direct effect of trajectories	0.01	0.02	0.02	< 0.01	< 0.01	< 0.01
Indirect effect of trajectories (via proximate measures)	0.00	< 0.01	< 0.01	0.01	< 0.01	< 0.01
Household Income ($ln)
Total effect of trajectories	< 0.01	< 0.01	< 0.01	< 0.01	< 0.01	< 0.01
Direct effect of trajectories	0.02	0.13	0.03	0.02	0.02	0.05
Indirect effect of trajectories (via proximate measures)	0.01	< 0.01	< 0.01	0.25	0.16	0.01
Personal Wage & Salary Income ($ln)
Total effect of trajectories	< 0.01	< 0.01	< 0.01	< 0.01	< 0.01	< 0.01
Direct effect of trajectories	< 0.01	0.01	0.01	< 0.01	< 0.01	< 0.01
Indirect effect of trajectories (via proximate measures)	0.02	0.03	< 0.01	< 0.01	< 0.01	< 0.01
Net Value of Home ($ln)
Total effect of trajectories	< 0.01	< 0.01	< 0.01	< 0.01	< 0.01	< 0.01
Direct effect of trajectories	0.01	0.01	0.01	< 0.01	< 0.01	< 0.01
Indirect effect of trajectories (via proximate measures)	< 0.01	< 0.01	< 0.01	0.04	0.01	0.09

Note: WLS sample restricted to graduates who responded to the 1975, 1993, and 2004 telephone surveys. Missing values on exogenous variables were imputed using chained equations in Stata. P -values for the indirect effects were calculated using the procedures described by Breen et al. (2013). Proximate measures include indicators of respondents’ work, family, and other circumstances as measured contemporaneously with the dependent variable in 2004. Bolded p -values are less than or equal to 0.05. All estimates are weighted to account for non-random sample attrition. See text for more details.