Civic Report
No. 35 March 2003

Table D-1: Mean Characteristics of Employed Women, Ages 33–41, in 1998, NLSY79 Cohort (all women and women by lifetime welfare participation)   All Women 1) Ever on Welfare 1) Never on Welfare Age 36.63 36.66 36.62 % Lives in South 42.60 43.40 42.30 Number of Children       % Never had a child 19.80 1.10 26.50 % 1 child 18.60 16.90 19.20 % 2 children 34.30 32.50 34.90 (% 3 or more children) (27.30) (49.50) (19.40) Education       % High School Dropout 7.70 16.90 4.40 (% High School Graduate) (41.30) (49.60) (38.30) % Some College 28.30 27.70 28.60 % College Graduate 22.70  5.8 28.70 Race       % Black non-Hispanic 29.80 51.10 22.20 % Hispanic 18.60 19.00 18.40 (% White non-Hispanic or other) (51.60) (29.90) (59.40) % Never Married 17.00 21.10 15.60 % Married 59.60 42.40 65.70 (% Previously Married) (23.40) (36.50) (18.70) AFQT Percentile Score 40.14 23.74 45.99 % Part-time 18.40 17.60 18.70 Work Experience       Total weeks worked since age 22 (converted to years by dividing by 52) 11.46 8.99 12.34 Tenure on current job (years)  4.62 2.82 5.26 Ever on Welfare (%) 26.30 100.00 0.00 1) Excludes women who were currently on welfare in 1998. Note: These are unweighted means of the variables used in the regressions. The form in which the variables were used in regression analysis differ in some indexes. For example, the AFQT score is entered as a spline in the regression.

Table D-2: Explaining the Wage Differential Between Women Ever on Welfare and Never on Welfare; Results of Wage Regressions: Log Hourly Wage in 1998 of Women, Ages 33–41, NLSY79   Model 1 Model 2 Model 3   Coeff. t-stat. Coeff. t-stat. Coeff. t-stat. Ever on Welfare -0.3113 -14.33 -0.1223  -5.56 -0.0024  -0.11 Age -0.0009 -0.22 -0.0046 -1.24 -0.0328 -8.34 Black, non-Hispanic -0.0834 -3.78 0.0548   2.34 0.0172   0.78               Hispanic -0.0598 -2.41 0.0888   3.72 0.0767   3.41 Lives in South     -0.0789  -4.56 -0.0791  -4.85 No Child     0.1189   4.19 0.0388   1.42 1 Child     0.1205   4.72 0.0545   2.24 2 Children     0.0739   3.43 0.0245   1.20 Never Married     -0.0481  -1.76 -0.0511  -1.98 Married in 1998     -0.0325  -1.56 -0.0374  -1.9 High School Dropout     -0.1234  -3.70 -0.0772  -2.45 Some College     0.1153   5.54 0.0932   4.75 College Graduate     0.3580 13.83 0.3510 14.41 AFQT 1_29     0.0061   4.42 0.0040   3.09 AFQT 30_100     0.0048   9.76 0.0037   8.02               Part-time         -0.0189  -0.93 Yrs worked since age 22         0.0347 12.27 Tenure on current job (yrs)         0.0176   9.55               Adj. R-Square 0.0788 0.2659 0.3511 Dependent mean (log hourly wage)   2.4201   Sample size     3210

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