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Table 11 Effects of HOPE on first-year GPA

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

 

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

 

All graduates

Initial STEM majors

Initial STEM majors earning STEM degrees

Initial STEM majors earning non-STEM degrees

A. Total

0.1793

0.1290

0.1229

0.1847

 

(0.0119)***

(0.0120)***

(0.0201)***

(0.0106)***

B. Females

0.1928

0.1467

0.1533

0.1672

 

(0.0118)***

(0.0247)***

(0.0345)**

(0.0465)**

C. Males

0.1604

0.1074

0.0998

0.1823

 

(0.0146)***

(0.0129)***

(0.0272)**

(0.0274)***

Sex, race/ethnicity dummies

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

High school dummies

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

SAT dummies

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

High school GPA dummies

No

No

No

No

USG institution dummies

No

No

No

No

  1. Standard errors in parentheses are clustered by high school graduation year
  2. **Significant at 5% based on small sample t-distribution; ***Significant at 1%