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

Table 3.

Structural Equation Model (SEM) WithoutHousehold Income as the Mediator

Standardized Coefficient SE. 95% CI p

YA Educational Attainment (At Age 22) Maternal Age (Baseline) -0.03 0.02 -0.08 0.01 0.173

Maternal Education (Baseline) 0.48 0.04 0.40 0.56 < 0.001

Father Jailed (Baseline) -0.04 0.02 -0.08 0.00 0.037

Sex (Male) -0.20 0.02 -0.24 -0.16 < 0.001

Race (Black) 0.15 0.06 0.04 0.26 0.008

Married HH (Baseline) 0.11 0.03 0.06 0.16 < 0.001

Race (Black) x Maternal Education (Baseline) -0.19 0.06 -0.29 -0.08 0.001

Intercept 0.96 0.14 0.69 1.23 < 0.001

YA Any School Discipline (At Age 22) Maternal Age (Baseline) -0.07 0.03 -0.12 -0.02 0.003

Maternal Education (Baseline) -0.19 0.04 -0.27 -0.10 < 0.001

Father Jailed (Baseline) 0.06 0.02 0.02 0.11 0.003

Sex (Male) 0.14 0.02 0.10 0.19 < 0.001

Race (Black) 0.16 0.06 0.04 0.28 0.007

Married HH (Baseline) -0.05 0.03 -0.10 0.01 0.078

Race (Black) x Maternal Education (Baseline) 0.05 0.06 -0.06 0.16 0.388

Intercept 1.29 0.14 1.02 1.57 < 0.001

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