Table 2 Background characteristics by grandmother’s death
From: Grandparents’ Childcare and Female Labor Force Participation
Grandmother alive | Grandmother deceased | Differences in means | |
|---|---|---|---|
Maternal labor force participation (MLFP) | 0.59 | 0.56 | 0.03** |
(0.49) | (0.50) | ||
AFQT | 0.26 | 0.09 | 0.17*** |
(0.99) | (1.03) | ||
Black | 0.15 | 0.24 | 0.09*** |
(0.36) | (0.43) | ||
Hispanic | 0.07 | 0.06 | 0.01 |
(0.26) | (0.24) | ||
Less than high school | 0.15 | 0.17 | −0.02* |
(0.35) | (0.38) | ||
High school graduate | 0.47 | 0.45 | 0.01 |
(0.50) | (0.50) | ||
Some college | 0.21 | 0.21 | 0.00 |
(0.41) | (0.40) | ||
College graduate | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.00 |
(0.22) | (0.22) | ||
Age | 26.89 | 28.37 | −1.47*** |
(5.32) | (5.33) | ||
Married | 0.78 | 0.71 | 0.07*** |
(0.41) | (0.45) | ||
Never married | 0.13 | 0.20 | −0.07*** |
(0.34) | (0.40) | ||
Single mother | 0.22 | 0.29 | −0.07*** |
(0.41) | (0.45) | ||
Teenage mother | 0.31 | 0.32 | −0.01 |
(0.46) | (0.47) | ||
Number of children in the household | 1.63 | 1.89 | −0.27*** |
(1.07) | (1.19) | ||
Household income not including mother’s | 46,004 | 44,366 | 1,638 |
(118) | (107) | ||
Lives in a SMSA | 0.76 | 0.73 | 0.03** |
(0.43) | (0.44) | ||
Lived in SMSA in 1979 | 0.70 | 0.67 | 0.03* |
(0.46) | (0.47) | ||
Any HH had a library card when mother was 14 | 0.76 | 0.73 | −0.02** |
(0.42) | (0.44) | ||
Observations | 13,521 | 1,138 | 14,659 |