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The Economic Costs of Alcohol and Drug Abuse in the United States - 1992

Appendix B, Table B.2

Logistical Regression Results for Past Month Employment
Dependent Variable = Earnings Past Month > 0
Coefficients and (Asymptotic Standard Errors)

Males Females
  Reduced Model Full Model Reduced Model Full Model

Intercept

 -1.1821**
(0.2567)		 -1.2499**
(0.2824)		 -1.5905**
(0.2149)		 -2.0139 **
(0.2527)

Age

 0.1909**
(0.0142)		 0.1381**
(0.0147)		 0.1863**
(0.0109)		 0.1648**
(0.0113)

Age Squared

 -0.0028**
(0.0002)		 -0.0022**
(0.0002)		 -0.0028**
(0.0001)		 -0.0025**
(0.0001)

Black

 -0.6930**
(0.0909)		 -0.4145**
(0.0958)		 -0.2316**
(0.0688)		 -0.1860**
(0.0688)

Hispanic

 -0.2712**
(0.1417)		 0.0657
(0.1584)		 -0.5269**
(0.0940)		 -0.2109
(0.0876)

Less than High School Graduate

   0.1372
(0.1346)		   0.0851
(0.1099)

High School Graduate

   0.6499*
(0.1247)		   0.7874**
(0.0862)

Some College

   1.0136**
(0.1132)		   1.0816**
(0.1035)

College Graduate

   1.1207**
(0.1716)		   0.8987**
(0.1097)

Graduate/Professional School

   1.2577**
(0.1497)		   1.2182**
(0.1214)

Married or Living Together As If

   0.6314**
(0.0731)		   -0.3524**
(0.0509)

Professional Occupation

   0.1610*
(0.0839)		   0.5482**
(0.0475)

Reside in Rural Area

   -0.0128
(0.0663)		   -0.0161
(0.0608)

Children Under 13 in Household

   0.0185
(0.0415)		   -0.3915**
(0.0259)

Alcohol Dependence,
Early Drinking

 -0.3903**
(0.1705)		 -0.2741**
(0.1795)		 -0.2583*
(0.1836)		 -0.2246
(0.1881)

Alcohol Dependence
Ever, Later Drinking

 0.1365*
(0.0717)		 0.1800**
(0.0768)		 0.1192
(0.0774)		 0.0905
(0.0771)

Drug Dependence Ever

 -0.1326
(0.1887)		 0.0616**
(0.1910)		 -0.2975**
(0.1105)		 -0.2502**
(0.1134)

Major Depression Ever

 -0.1034
(0.0995)		 0.0959
(0.1054)		 -0.0083
(0.0562)		 -0.0955
(0.0590)

*Indicates significance at 0.10 level.
**Indicates significance at 0.05 level
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