Table 5 Four year college enrollment, logistic regressions

From: The use of cognitive ability measures as explanatory variables in regression analysis

	Men			Women
Model	Logistic	Logistic	MESE	Logistic	Logistic	MESE
Skill control	No skill	Standard	PIAT	No skill	Standard	PIAT
	control	PIAT score		control	PIAT score
	(a)	(b)	(c)	(a)	(b)	(c)
Lit. Skills ( ${\hat{β}}_{1}$ ):
Std. PIAT Score		0.058			0.052
		(0.004)			(0.004)
PIAT MESE			0.528			0.509
			(0.050)			(0.048)
Effect of a one SD		0.814	0.950		0.704	0.817
Change in Skills
Race ( ${\hat{β}}_{2}$ )	−0.768	−0.239	0.022	−0.495	0.005	0.258
	(0.105)	(0.120)	(0.128)	(0.106)	(0.121)	(0.129)
DIC	2677	2424	63066	2500	2323	58076
N	2035	2035	2035	1853	1853	1853

Notes: National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 for waves through 2006. All regressions control also for age, census region (an unordered factor), and urban/rural area (a binary indicator).

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