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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Mar 7.
Published in final edited form as: Sociol Methodol. 2012 Aug;42(1):314–347. doi: 10.1177/0081175012452652

Table 1. Propensity Score Probit Regression: Model Predicting College Attendance (N=1,512).

Black −0.133
(0.116)
Hispanic 0.054
(0.158)
Mother’s education −0.137 †
(0.080)
Mother’s education2 0.009 **
(0.003)
Father’s education 0.038 *
(0.018)
Parent’s inc. (1979 $1,000s) −0.257
(0.448)
Intact family 0.042
(0.112)
Number of siblings −0.041 †
(0.024)
U.S. born 0.351
(0.258)
Rural residence −0.156
(0.110)
Southern residence 0.283 **
(0.099)
Catholic −0.017
(0.108)
Jewish 0.283
(0.462)
Mental ability 0.640 ***
(0.079)
College-preparatory 0.369 ***
(0.098)
Parents’ encouragement 0.454 ***
(0.119)
Friends’ plans 0.058 *
(0.023)
Child by age 18 −1.238 ***
(0.243)
Non-missing on covariates 0.004
(0.098)
Constant −2.430 ***
(0.610)
Wald χ2 298.98
P > χ2 0.000

Notes: Numbers in parentheses are standard errors.

Dependent variable is college attendance by age 19 (1) versus high school completion but no college attendance by age 19 (0).

†

p<.10

*

p<.05

**

p<.01

***

p< .001 (two-tailed tests)