Table 1.
Descriptive statistics in the pooled sample and by race.
| All (n = 1471) | Whites (n = 423) | Blacks (n = 1048) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | |
| Age of the Mother* | 25.30 | 6.10 | 27.91 | 6.63 | 24.25 | 5.53 |
| Baseline Education* | 2.31 | 0.99 | 2.88 | 1.03 | 2.08 | 0.88 |
| Baseline Income* | 35.32 | 33.54 | 60.23 | 41.07 | 25.27 | 23.41 |
| Subsequent Income* | 64.56 | 66.98 | 109.71 | 93.02 | 46.34 | 40.68 |
| n | % | n | % | n | % | |
| Race | ||||||
| White | 423 | 28.76 | 423 | 100.00 | 0 | 0 |
| Black | 1048 | 71.24 | 0 | 0 | 1048 | 100.00 |
| Child Gender | ||||||
| Male | 795 | 54.04 | 224 | 52.96 | 571 | 54.48 |
| Female | 676 | 45.96 | 199 | 47.04 | 477 | 45.52 |
| Marital Status* | ||||||
| Unmarried | 1083 | 73.62 | 167 | 39.48 | 916 | 87.40 |
| Married | 388 | 26.38 | 256 | 60.52 | 132 | 12.60 |
*
p < 0.05 for comparison of Black and White families.