The effect of Georgia’s HOPE scholarship on college major: a focus on STEM

Sjoquist, David L; Winters, John V

doi:10.1186/s40172-015-0032-6

Table 1 Summary statistics for USG data

From: The effect of Georgia’s HOPE scholarship on college major: a focus on STEM

	All graduates		Females		Males		Pre-HOPE		Post-HOPE		Difference
	Mean	S.D.	Mean	S.D.	Mean	S.D.	Mean	S.D.	Mean	S.D.	Pre/Post
Initial STEM major	0.197	0.398	0.148	0.355	0.262	0.440	0.184	0.387	0.208	0.406	0.025***
Earned STEM major	0.197	0.398	0.128	0.334	0.289	0.453	0.201	0.400	0.193	0.395	−0.007*
Initial business major	0.107	0.309	0.094	0.292	0.125	0.331	0.107	0.310	0.107	0.309	0.000
Initial education major	0.044	0.206	0.066	0.248	0.016	0.125	0.042	0.200	0.047	0.211	0.005**
Initial health major	0.028	0.166	0.045	0.208	0.006	0.077	0.021	0.145	0.034	0.182	0.013***
Initial liberal arts major	0.185	0.388	0.183	0.387	0.188	0.391	0.191	0.393	0.180	0.385	−0.010***
Initial social science major	0.060	0.237	0.069	0.254	0.047	0.212	0.063	0.243	0.057	0.231	−0.006***
Initial undeclared major	0.378	0.485	0.393	0.488	0.357	0.479	0.391	0.488	0.367	0.482	−0.024***
Earned business major	0.261	0.439	0.213	0.410	0.324	0.468	0.241	0.428	0.278	0.448	0.037***
Earned education major	0.153	0.360	0.216	0.412	0.068	0.252	0.171	0.376	0.138	0.345	−0.033***
Earned health major	0.057	0.232	0.090	0.286	0.013	0.114	0.056	0.229	0.059	0.235	0.003
Earned liberal arts major	0.157	0.364	0.155	0.362	0.160	0.367	0.151	0.358	0.163	0.369	0.011***
Earned social science major	0.175	0.380	0.198	0.398	0.145	0.352	0.181	0.385	0.170	0.375	−0.012***
Post-HOPE dummy	0.540	0.498	0.554	0.497	0.521	0.500
SAT math	518.4	92.8	498.9	85.8	544.3	95.4	513.1	89.8	523.0	95.1	9.953***
SAT verbal	520.7	90.0	513.0	88.5	530.9	91.0	512.9	89.5	527.3	90.0	14.441***
High School GPA	3.037	0.620	3.092	0.600	2.963	0.639	2.925	0.636	3.133	0.589	0.208***
Female	0.572	0.495	1.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.555	0.497	0.587	0.492	0.032***
Black	0.182	0.386	0.224	0.417	0.126	0.332	0.163	0.370	0.199	0.399	0.036***
Hispanic	0.010	0.102	0.010	0.099	0.011	0.105	0.009	0.092	0.012	0.110	0.004***
Asian	0.029	0.167	0.026	0.159	0.033	0.177	0.024	0.153	0.033	0.178	0.009***
Native American	0.002	0.039	0.001	0.038	0.002	0.040	0.002	0.039	0.001	0.038	0.000
Observations	42,399		24,263		18,136		19,497		22,902

*significant at 10%; **significant at 5%; *** significant at 1%

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