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Racial Gap in Household Income Explains Black-White Disparities in the Intergenerational Transmission of Educational Attainment

Table 1.

Descriptive Data Overall and by Race


	All N=2,336		White N=689		Black N=1,647

	Mean	Std. Err.	Mean	Std. Err.	Mean	Std. Err.

Maternal Education (1-4)	2.32	0.02	2.78	0.04	2.09	0.03

Maternal Age (Years)	25.43	0.15	27.52	0.27	24.39	0.17

YA Education (Years)	13.33	0.03	13.59	0.06	13.20	0.04

HH Income	3.53	0.08	6.12	0.18	2.51	0.06

YA = Young Adults; HH = Household