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Table 6 Effects of HOPE on earning a STEM degree by students' initial institutions

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

 

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

 

Full

4-Year

4-Year

Research

Georgia

 

USG

schools

non-research

universities

Tech

A. Total

−0.0253

−0.0284

−0.0121

−0.0588

−0.0944

 

(0.0033)***

(0.0036)***

(0.0033)**

(0.0084)***

(0.0152)***

 

{−12.6%}

{−13.7%}

{−7.5%}

{−20.6%}

{−13.4%}

B. Females

−0.0121

−0.0145

0.0015

−0.0442

−0.1468

 

(0.0048)*

(0.0048)*

(0.0026)

(0.0093)**

(0.0045)***

 

{−9.8%}

{−11.2%}

{1.5%}

{−23.0%}

{−23.4%}

C. Males

−0.0416

−0.0455

−0.0331

−0.0679

−0.0762

 

(0.0025)***

(0.0027)***

(0.0061)**

(0.0096)***

(0.0171)**

 

{−14.1%}

{−14.9%}

{−13.1%}

{−18.1%}

{−10.3%}

Sex, race/ethnicity dummies

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

High school dummies

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

SAT dummies

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

High school GPA dummies

No

No

No

No

No

USG institution dummies

No

No

No

No

No

  1. Standard errors in parentheses are clustered by high school graduation year. The percent change, i.e., the coefficient divided by the mean, are shown in braces
  2. *Significant at 10% based on small sample t-distribution; **Significant at 5%; ***Significant at 1%