Table 1.

Objective 1: Baseline (i.e. at birth) characteristics of mothers and children evicted in early childhood (ages 0–5) vs. not evicted in early childhood. The study sample consists of renting households in the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, a birth cohort of children born in 20 large US cities between 1998 and 2000 (N = 2556, IPCW weighted).

	Not Evicted	Evicted	p-value
	N = 2392	N = 164
Maternal & Pregnancy Characteristics
Age
<20	20%	22%
20–34	72%	70%
≥35	8%	7%	0.784
Race/ethnicity
NH White	18%	21%
NH Black	50%	48%
Hispanic	28%	26%
Other/missing	4%	6%	0.495
Education
< High school	37%	49%
High school or equivalent	32%	29%
Some college or technical school	24%	21%
College or Graduate	7%	1%	0.009
Smoked during pregnancy	22%	35%	<0.001
Mental health problems	13%	25%	<0.001
Overweight/obese pre-pregnancy	49%	51%	0.677
Household Characteristics
Parental relationship
Married	20%	8%
Cohabiting	38%	50%
Not married or cohabiting	42%	43%	0.001
Annual Income in $1000s – mean (SD)	28.2 (29.8)	23.2 (20.8)	0.004
High neighborhood poverty (%)	45%	46%	0.798
Child Characteristics
Female	48%	47%	0.877
Ever breastfed	54%	55%	0.803
Born pre-term	11%	16%	0.071
Low birth weight	10%	14%	0.197