Race, Class, and Crime III: One possibility not considered in the previous two posts is that the correlation between race and crime is eliminated when family structure is controlled. I recoded the variable on family arrangements at age 16 to 1 for living with both parents and zero for everything else. Here are the multivariate results:
Logistic regression coefficients (t-statistic in parentheses)
Black .43 (3.29)
Mother's educ .00 (.15)
IQ -.02 (-.84)
Male 1.62 (15.25)
Age -.03 (-8.64)
Living with mom and dad at 16, -.48 (-4.28)
Number of valid cases 4,782
Family structure is related to being arrested, but it reduces the race-crime link only a little bit, according to GSS data.
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ReplyDeleteIf it is a logistic regression, I think you mean z-statistic.
ReplyDeleteIt would also be interesting to look at the interactions of race and family status.
ReplyDeleteAnon: I use SPSS and it generates t-statistics.
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