. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Nov 19.

Published in final edited form as: Sociol Educ. 2009 Oct 1;82(4):287–314. doi: 10.1177/003804070908200401

Table 5.

OLS Estimates of Same-Race High School Peer Group on College Achievement: High School Fixed Effects

Fixed Effects?	Pooled Sample Year (1)	Pooled Sample Year/School (2)	White Sample Year/School (3)	Black Sample Year/School (4)	Hispanic Sample Year/School (5)
First-Semester GPA
Number of same-race high school classmates	0.005^*** (0.000)	0.000 (0.000)	0.001^** (0.001)	0.012 (0.012)	0.000 (0.003)
Observations	66654	66654	42002	2622	10262
Number of schools		1179	1096	477	755
R²	0.28	0.30	0.32	0.26	0.22
Two-year Persistence
Number of same-race high school classmates	0.001^*** (0.000)	0.0002 (0.000)	0.0004^** (0.000)	0.002 (0.005)	0.001 (0.002)
Observations	66654	66654	42002	2622	10262
Number of schools		1179	1096	477	755
R²	0.37	0.37	0.35	0.41	0.33

Note: Standard errors clustered at the high school level.

^***

1%,

^**

5%, and

10%. The same background controls as in Table 3 were used.

Source: University of Texas at Austin administrative data.