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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Oct 23.
Published in final edited form as: Child Youth Serv Rev. 2011 Oct 14;34(3):576–589. doi: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2011.10.010

Table 2b.

Summary of OLS Regressions of Children's Standardized Math Achievement Scores on Child Care, Poverty, and Covariates in the U.S.

Math, KF Math, 5S
COEFFICIENT Full Samplel Full Sample2 Poverty Non-Poverty Full Samplel Full Sample2 Poverty Non-Poverty
Child Care (ref: parental care)
    Relative/non-relative 0.10*** (0.03) 0.08** (0.02) 0.05 (0.05) 0.07** (0.03) 0.03 (0.03) 0.02 (0.03) 0.01 (0.06) 0.03 (0.03)
    Head start -0.23*** (0.03) -0.07* (0.03) 0.01 (0.04) -0.11** (0.04) -0.29*** (0.04) -0.13** (0.04) -0.10 (0.06) -0.14** (0.05)
    Center-based 0.39*** (0.02) 0.23*** (0.02) 0.22*** (0.05) 0.22*** (0.02) 0.20*** (0.03) 0.11*** (0.02) 0.04 (0.06) 0.12*** (0.03)
Poverty, KF -0.53*** (0.02) -0.18*** (0.02) -0.42*** (0.03) -0.14*** (0.03)
Constant 0.01 (0.02) -4.41*** (0.12) -4.16*** (0.28) -4.53*** (0.13) 0.05* (0.02) -0.90*** (0.22) -0.49 (0.54) -1.07*** (0.24)
Covariates No Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes
Observations 15857 15857 2814 13043 15857 15857 2814 13043
R-squared 0.12 0.29 0.19 0.25 0.06 0.15 0.10 0.12

Standard errors in parentheses

**

p<0.01

*

p<0.05

+ p<0.1