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Table 2

PSID summary statistics

MeanSD
Daughters' Variables (second generation) 
 Number of observations  21,980  
 Number of individuals  2,228  
 Birth year 1970  7.13 
 Survey year 2004  7.63 
 Age 33.54  7.01 
 Black .08  .26 
 Four-year college degree .33  .47 
 Young child present .44  .50 
 Number of young children 0.63  0.82 
 Number of young children (conditional on having one) 1.43  0.62 
 Partner's real income (1,000s) 53.76  51.26 
 Partner has positive income .94  .23 
 Log real hourly wage offer 2.72  0.60 
Mothers' Variables (first generation) 
 Some college completed .41  .49 
 Share years employed FTFY    
  When daughter was age 0–17 .27  .30 
  When daughter was age 6–17 .31  .34 
  When daughter was age 0–10 .19  .29 
MeanSD
Daughters' Variables (second generation) 
 Number of observations  21,980  
 Number of individuals  2,228  
 Birth year 1970  7.13 
 Survey year 2004  7.63 
 Age 33.54  7.01 
 Black .08  .26 
 Four-year college degree .33  .47 
 Young child present .44  .50 
 Number of young children 0.63  0.82 
 Number of young children (conditional on having one) 1.43  0.62 
 Partner's real income (1,000s) 53.76  51.26 
 Partner has positive income .94  .23 
 Log real hourly wage offer 2.72  0.60 
Mothers' Variables (first generation) 
 Some college completed .41  .49 
 Share years employed FTFY    
  When daughter was age 0–17 .27  .30 
  When daughter was age 6–17 .31  .34 
  When daughter was age 0–10 .19  .29 

Notes: The sample consists of all PSID woman-year observations, who are members of original 1968 PSID families, meeting the following conditions: aged 22–49; born between 1961 and 1987; observed in 1983–2017; current head of household or spouse/unmarried partner of household head; and has a mother with nonmissing information on work history. Statistics are weighted by original PSID family weights. Real income and wage figures are expressed in terms of 2010 U.S. dollars. Full-time, full-year (FTFY) employment is defined as at least 1,600 hours of paid work in the reference year.

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