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

Table 2.

Bivariate Correlations


	1	2	3	4	5	6	7

1 Race (Black)	1.00

2 Maternal Education (Baseline)	-0.37*	1.00

3 Father Jailed (Baseline)	0.08*	-0.10*	1.00

4 HH Married (Baseline)	-0.45*	0.51*	-0.10*	1.00

5 YA Educational Attainment (At Age 22)	-0.21*	0.43*	-0.09*	0.32*	1.00

6 YA School Discipline, Any (Baseline)	0.31*	-0.30*	0.11*	-0.27*	-0.36*	1.00

7 Sex (Male)	-0.04	0.04	0.01	0.02	-0.18*	0.13*	1.00

*p < 0.05 (Pearson); HH: Household; YA/EA: Young Adult/Emerging Adult