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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 3:

High School Graduation, Add Health Non-Hispanic White Sample

(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6)
VARIABLES Living
with Bio-mom in Wave I
Mother
High School
Mother
Some College
Mother
College Grad
Male −0.0251***
(0.00821)
−0.0235***
(0.00837)
−0.0235***
(0.00837)
−0.0258*
(0.0151)
−0.0110
(0.0130)
−0.0140**
(0.00576)
Male*No Father −0.0327*
(0.0196)
−0.0298
(0.0291)
−0.0720
(0.0452)
−0.00242
(0.0266)
Male*Other Father 0.0171
(0.0272)
0.0170
(0.0273)
0.0433
(0.0484)
−0.0171
(0.0360)
−0.0203
(0.0310)
No Father −0.0336**
(0.0129)
−0.0592***
(0.0209)
−0.0257
(0.0181)
−0.0124
(0.00969)
Other Father −0.0379**
(0.0176)
−0.0380**
(0.0176)
−0.0663**
(0.0324)
0.00108
(0.0178)
0.000956
(0.00198)
Male*No Father Recently −0.0116
(0.0240)
Male*No Father Always −0.0597*
(0.0332)
No Father Recently −0.0293*
(0.0155)
No Father Always −0.0380*
(0.0204)
Constant 0.796***
(0.0859)
0.607***
(0.0774)
0.612***
(0.0788)
0.761***
(0.117)
0.809***
(0.126)
0.906***
(0.0497)
Observations 7,327 7,327 7,327 3,932 1,468 1,922
R-squared 0.003 0.080 0.081 0.023 0.032 0.012
Mean of dependent variable 0.935 0.900 0.958 0.988
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.