Table 4.

Gelbach decomposition based on paternal social class estimates on PoA (age 15–19).

	Base	Full	Explained
Low paternal social class	0.448***	0.316**	0.132**
	(0.113)	(0.122)	(0.059)
Pregnancy block			0.020
			(0.022)
Socioeconomic status block			0.086*
			(0.050)
Children block			0.017
			(0.019)
Life events block			0.010
			(0.024)

Notes: *p < 0.1**p < 0.05, ***p < 0.01. The outcome variable is standardized, as are the following controls: birth weight, age of the mother at birth, MFP count, FDS, and BMI. The base specification and the full specification columns report the estimated correlation between ‘low paternal social class’ (a dummy equal to 1 if the paternal social class at birth is ‘manual’ or ‘Non-manual’ and equal to 0 otherwise) and PoA (age 15–19), using base (including school fixed-effects) controls and the full battery of controls, respectively. The last column reports a decomposition of the difference between the estimated correlation in the base and in the full specifications, based on Gelbach (2016).