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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Demography. 2013 Apr;50(2):447–469. doi: 10.1007/s13524-012-0157-1

Table 3.

Three-level models of single-sex school effects on college entrance exam scores for girls

Korean
English
M1-1 M1-2 M2-1 M2-2
Fixed Effect
 All-girls school (vs. coed) 1.267 (0.600)* 1.392 (0.479)** 1.318 (0.883) 1.441 (0.640)*
 Proportion of students receiving lunch support (0.01 unit) −0.624 (0.055)** −0.978 (0.075)***
 Average years of teaching experience of teachers −0.171 (0.094) −0.152 (0.128)
 Average years of schooling attained of teachers 1.495 (0.937) 2.228 (1.253)
 Seniors-teacher ratio 0.157 (0.481) 0.530 (0.645)
 Private school (vs. public) 0.442 (0.611) 0.784 (0.814)
Intercept, γ000 100.966 (0.813)*** 100.988 (0.517)*** 100.935 (1.371)*** 101.008 (0.810)***
Random Effect
 Students (Level 1), eijk 299.2 299.2 333.2 333.2
 Schools (Level 2), r0jk 9.3 3.8 21.0 7.4
 Districts (Level 3), u00k 5.3 1.4 16.4 4.4

Notes: The analysis was conducted using data for 42,162 female students (42,042 for English) who are nested within 60 all-girls schools and 68 coeducational schools, which are, in turn, nested within 11 school districts. Values in parentheses are standard errors.

p < .10;

*

p < .05;

**

p < .01;

***

p < .001