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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jan 28.
Published in final edited form as: J Econ Behav Organ. 2020 Aug 15;178:424–448. doi: 10.1016/j.jebo.2020.07.020

Table 2:

College Graduation, Add Health Non-Hispanic White Sample

(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6)
VARIABLES Living with Bio-mon in Wave I Mother
High School
Mother
Some College
Mother
College Grad
Male −0.0702***
(0.0169)
−0.0893***
(0.0178)
−0.0891***
(0.0179)
−0.0600***
(0.0215)
−0.0916*
(0.0489)
−0.136***
(0.0338)
Male*No Father 0.0397
(0.0296)
0.0352
(0.0358)
−0.0212
(0.0826)
0.0691
(0.0750)
Male*Other Father 0.0366
(0.0423)
0.0365
(0.0423)
0.0231
(0.0460)
0.00942
(0.0962)
0.0802
(0.101)
No Father −0.149***
(0.0209)
−0.130***
(0.0241)
−0.133***
(0.0467)
−0.235***
(0.0556)
Other Father −0.126***
(0.0264)
−0.127***
(0.0264)
−0.107***
(0.0333)
−0.0958
(0.0639)
−0.207***
(0.0670)
Male*No Father Recently 0.0326
(0.0421)
Male*No Father Always 0.0368
(0.0329)
No Father Recently −0.106***
(0.0283)
No Father Always −0.192***
(0.0235)
Constant 0.155
(0.217)
−0.123
(0.168)
−0.105
(0.167)
−0.00228
(0.204)
−0.0192
(0.299)
0.590**
(0.261)
Observations 7,327 7,327 7,327 3,932 1,468 1,922
R-squared 0.006 0.171 0.172 0.037 0.038 0.063
Mean of dependent variable 0.368 0.235 0.362 0.643
Mother’s characteristics NO YES YES YES YES YES

Note: Robust standard errors in parentheses. Standard errors clustered by school.

***

p<0.01

**

p<0.05

*

p<0.1. “No Father” and “Other Father” refer to living arrangements at Wave I. “No Father Always” means the adolescent has not lived with his/her biological father since the age of 5. Mothers characteristics include education and dummies for foreign-born and young mother (under 22). All models include birth cohort. All models are weighted by Wave IV weights.