When Do People Become Adults? The Uruguayan Case

Table 3

Ordered probit models for each transition to adulthood: marginal effects of independent variables (reference cell is all other individuals without the characteristic).

	Being economically independent	Leaving home	Completing formal education	Working full time	Getting married	Having a child
Man	0.077^**	0.056^*	−0.061^*	0.092^***	0.143^***	0.147^***
Age 30–44	−0.087^*	−0.042	−0.026	−0.022	0.007	0.010
Age 45–64	−0.137^***	−0.110^**	−0.017	0.032	0.006	−0.007
Age 65	−0.182^***	−0.061	0.005	0.142^***	0.056	0.115^*
Education 6–9	−0.088	−0.058	0.026	−0.149^**	−0.102^*	−0.097^*
Education 10–12	−0.146^**	−0.001	0.004	−0.206^***	−0.165^***	−0.045
Education 13	−0.080	−0.033	−0.047	−0.312^***	−0.253^***	−0.205^***
Subjective income (1 to 10 scale)	0.018^*	−0.013	−0.002	0.007	−0.003	−0.019^*
Married	−0.080^**	−0.082^**	−0.001	−0.049	0.081^**	−0.013
Single	−0.036	−0.056	−0.043	0.061	−0.028	−0.058
Has a child or children	0.125^***	0.037	−0.029	0.092^**	−0.030	0.019
Catholic	0.063^*	0.001	0.056^*	0.045	0.089^**	0.061^∗
Evangelist	0.079	−0.068	0.057	0.045	−0.039	−0.073
Religiosity	0.021	−0.022	0.055	0.016	0.179^***	0.036
Employed full time	−0.055	0.031	0.015	0.016	−0.070^*	−0.043
Employed in public sector	−0.073	−0.123^**	−0.003	−0.050	−0.048	−0.079
Self-employed	−0.064^*	−0.041	−0.016	−0.011	0.004	0.005
Unemployed	−0.072	0.039	−0.126^*	0.081	−0.118	−0.001
Resides in Montevideo	0.041	0.080^**	0.096^***	−0.030	−0.035	−0.036
Observations	990	990	990	990	990	990

Notes: (1) ^*significant at 10%; ^**significant at 5%; ^***significant at 1%.