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Table 4 Summary statistics

From: Uncovering the impact of intergenerational income mobility on interpersonal trust

Variable

N

 

Mean

Std. Dev.

Min.

Max.

TRUST

1,205

 

0.46

0.499

0

1

= 0 if “cannot trust” or “depends”

651

     

= 1 if “can trust”

554

     

A g e≤25

1,205

 

0.028

0.166

0

1

25<A g e≤35

1,205

 

0.195

0.396

0

1

35<A g e≤45

1,205

 

0.284

0.451

0

1

45<A g e≤65

1,205

 

0.452

0.498

0

1

A g e>65

1,205

 

0.0407

0.197

0

1

Age

1,205

 

45.468

11.694

19

88

Black

1,205

 

0.074

0.262

0

1

= 0 if “white” or “other”

1,116

     

= 1 if “black”

89

     

Female

1,205

 

0.504

0.5

0

1

= 0 if “male”

598

     

= 1 if “female”

607

     

Educ (years of education)

1,205

 

14.524

2.741

2

20

Res16

1,205

 

3.466

1.456

1

6

= 1 if “country,nonfarm”

152

     

= 2 if “farm”

100

     

= 3 if “town lt 50000”

425

     

= 4 if “50000 to 250000”

222

     

= 5 if “big-city suburb”

174

     

= 6 if “city gt 250000”

132

     

Children

1,205

 

0.829

0.377

0

1

= 0 if “no children”

206

     

= 1 if “children”

999

     

Religious

1,205

 

0.856

0.352

0

1

= 0 if “not religious”

174

     

= 1 if “religious”

1,031

     

Spouse prestige score

1,205

 

46.753

13.458

17

86

Mother prestige score

1,205

 

43.183

14.309

17

86

Diffspousemother

1,205

 

3.569

17.686

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