Blacks’ Diminished Returns of Parental Education on Household Income: A Study of College Students in the US

Table 4.

Logistic regression in the White and Blacksample (stratified)

  Unstandardized Coefficients Standardized Coefficients 95.0% Confidence Interval for B Sig.

White          

Survey Year -.083 .001 -.084 -.082 < .001

Male 1.262 .014 1.234 1.290 < .001

Age (1-11) -.682 .006 -.695 -.670 < .001

Parental Education (1-8) 2.531 .003 2.525 2.538 < .001

Constant 171.957 1.162 169.679 174.235 < .001

Black          

Survey Year -.264 .005 -.274 -.254 < .001

Male 1.786 .096 1.597 1.975 < .001

Age (1-11) -.453 .050 -.551 -.354 < .001

Parental Education (1-8) 2.157 .025 2.108 2.206 < .001

Constant 536.384 10.260 516.274 556.495 < .001