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Table 13 Estimated gender score gap over the grades at mean

From: The evolution of the gender test score gap through seventh grade: new insights from Australia using unconditional quantile regression and decomposition

Subject

Model

Grade 3

Grade 5

Grade 7

Reading

(1)

−0.13***

− 0.22***

− 0.22***

(0.04)

(0.04)

(0.04)

(2)

−0.13***

− 0.22***

− 0.20***

(0.04)

(0.04)

(0.03)

(4)

0.07**

−0.13***

− 0.04*

(0.04)

(0.03)

(0.02)

Numeracy

(1)

0.00

0.15***

0.15***

(0.04)

(0.04)

(0.04)

(2)

0.01

0.15***

0.17***

(0.04)

(0.04)

(0.03)

(4)

0.22***

0.14***

0.04*

(0.04)

(0.03)

(0.02)

Observations

 

2471

2509

2857

  1. Notes: Females are the base group. Each estimate is obtained from a separate regression. Model 1 includes gender dummy only. Model 2 includes student characteristics (gender, age, Aboriginal status, and birth weight), household characteristics (mother’s characteristics (age, migration background, completed qualification, and working hours), having computer at home, home environment index, out-of-home activity index, household size, number of siblings, living with both biological parents, living in an owned home, household income, and school sector), test states, test years, urban, local socio-economic background variables, and survey quarters. Model 4 includes all variables as in model 2 plus pre-school PPVT and WAI for grade 3 test score regressions and respective grade 3 (5) test scores for grade 5 (7) test score regressions
  2. Significance at the *10% level, **5% level, and ***1% level