Affirmative action and university fit: evidence from Proposition 209

Arcidiacono, Peter; Aucejo, Esteban; Coate, Patrick; Hotz, V Joseph

doi:10.1186/2193-8997-3-7

Table 5 Intercepts and slopes for UC campus-specific minority graduation rates for pre-Prop-209 period

From: Affirmative action and university fit: evidence from Proposition 209

	Model Specification:
	Baseline	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)
Campus-Specific Intercepts:
UC Berkeley	0.018	-0.016	-0.020	-0.074***	-0.025
UCLA	-0.007	-0.037	-0.042	-0.078***	-0.046*
UC San Diego	0.010	-0.029	-0.035	-0.058**	-0.038
UC Davis	-0.069***	-0.068***	-0.065**	-0.135***	-0.069**
UC Irvine	0.036*	0.009	0.010	-0.023	0.006
UC Santa Barbara	0.006	-0.005	-0.004	-0.014	-0.005
Santa Cruz	0.001	0.006	0.002	-0.016	0.003
Campus-Specific Slopes:
AI	0.053***	0.034**	0.036**	0.034**	0.031**
UC Berkeley	0.023	0.030*	0.025	0.042**	0.033*
UCLA	0.063***	0.068***	0.064***	0.078***	0.071***
UC San Diego	0.047**	0.059**	0.054**	0.063**	0.060**
UC Davis	0.055 ***	0.060***	0.056***	0.071***	0.063***
UC Irvine	0.022	0.027	0.024	0.035	0.029
UC Santa Barbara	0.021	0.024	0.020	0.019	0.024
UC Santa Cruz	-0.008	-0.007	-0.007	-0.004	-0.005

*** p < 0.01; ** p < 0.05; * p < 0.1.
Campus-specific intercepts are evaluated at mean academic index for pre-209 Minority students and are measured relative to UC Riverside.
Campus-specific slope coefficients on standardized academic index variable, A I_std,r,t for r = Minority and t = Pre-209. Each coefficient measures the effect of a one S.D. increase in academic index on probability of graduation and these effects are measured relative of that for UC Riverside.
All specifications include the following control variables: parents’ income and education and initial major.
Specification 1 adds a full set of dummy variables indicating whether the student applied to and/or admitted to each of the eight UC campuses.
Specification 2 adds to Specification 1 the number of campuses applied to and admitted to for each of three tiers of UC campuses, with Tier 1 which includes UC Berkeley, UCLA and UC San Diego, Tier 2 which includes UC Davis, UC Irvine and UC Santa Barbara, and Tier 3 which includes UC Santa Cruz and UC Riverside, and also dummy variables that indicate whether a student applied to campuses in the Tier above or in the Tier below the Tier to which they were admitted.
Specification 3 includes the base specification plus a set of dummies for the highest ranked campus a student was admitted to.
Specification 4 includes the controls in Specification 2, plus a student’s total number of applications and admissions, respectively, as well as an average of average academic index of the applicants/admits for campuses the student applied/was admitted.

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