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Table 5 Sensitivity of estimates to selection by black students

From: The effect of banning affirmative action on human capital accumulation prior to college entry

 

SAT M

SAT V

GPA

SAT M

SAT V

GPA

 

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

Panel 1: 1994–6 (pre) vs 1998–2001 (post)

   

Post*CA

0.005

0.022***

0.019***

0.003

0.019***

0.019***

 

(0.005)

(0.004)

(0.005)

(0.004)

(0.003)

(0.005)

 

[-.13,.14]

[-.11,.14]

[-.13,.18]

[-.14,.13]

[-.11,.13]

[-.13,.18]

Post*Black*CA

-0.049***

-0.065***

0.057***

-0.047***

-0.063***

0.055***

 

(0.010)

(0.007)

(0.013)

(0.010)

(0.007)

(0.012)

 

[-.28,.23]

[-.19,.21]

[-.19,.29]

[-.29,.24]

[-.21,.21]

[-.18,.29]

Post*Hispanic*CA

-0.026***

-0.029***

0.062**

-0.016***

-0.018***

0.073***

 

(0.006)

(0.008)

(0.027)

(0.005)

(0.007)

(0.025)

 

[-.15,.32]

[-.18,.37]

[-.13,.3]

[-.16,.3]

[-.17,.36]

[-.13,.28]

Observations

2488390

2488390

2574569

2488390

2488390

2574569

R-squared

0.256

0.239

0.136

0.256

0.240

0.136

Panel 2: 1994–5 (pre) vs 1999–2001 (post)

   

Post*CA

0.003

0.048***

0.014

0.001

0.044***

0.014

 

(0.008)

(0.008)

(0.009)

(0.008)

(0.007)

(0.009)

 

[-.22,.14]

[-.26,.22]

[-.23,.24]

[-.23,.13]

[-.26,.21]

[-.24,.24]

Post*Black*CA

-0.052***

-0.076***

0.070***

-0.050***

-0.072***

0.068***

 

(0.014)

(0.009)

(0.015)

(0.014)

(0.009)

(0.015)

 

[-.23,.22]

[-.14,.36]

[-.16,.39]

[-.24,.21]

[-.17,.35]

[-.16,.38]

Post*Hispanic*CA

-0.040***

-0.045***

0.062*

-0.028***

-0.034***

0.073**

 

(0.005)

(0.007)

(0.035)

(0.005)

(0.006)

(0.034)

 

[-.16,.34]

[-.16,.27]

[-.16,.34]

[-.18,.32]

[-.16,.26]

[-.16,.32]

Observations

1845603

1845603

1907498

1845603

1845603

1907498

R-squared

0.258

0.242

0.138

0.258

0.242

0.139

Demographics

x

x

x

x

x

x

Post*Demographics

   

x

x

x

  1. Notes: See notes from Table 3.
  2. The observations of the lowest 1 percent of SAT scores for Californian post-period blacks are replicated an additional four times to test for sensitivity to selection. See text.
  3. Significance indicators associated with clustered standard errors: ***p <0.01, **p <0.05, *p <0.10.