Table A.3.

Attendance Rates, Reading and Math Z-scores, Student-level Model (Grades 3–8), School Years 2001–02 to 2004–05.

	Attendance rate			Reading Z-score			Math Z-scores
	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)	(6)	(7)	(8)	(9)
Time trend	−0.38*** (0.02)	−0.38*** (0.02)	−1.25*** (0.13)	−0.01*** (0.00)	−0.01*** (0.00)	0.54*** (0.01)	0.01* (0.00)	0.01** (0.00)	0.59*** (0.01)
Non-Free	1.51*** (0.07)	1.23*** (0.06)		0.40*** (0.02)	0.32*** (0.01)		0.34*** (0.02)	0.27*** (0.01)
Post × Free	0.67*** (0.08)	0.61*** (0.06)	0.60*** (0.07)	0.00 (0.01)	−0.01 (0.01)	−0.00 (0.01)	0.00 (0.01)	−0.01 (0.01)	−0.00 (0.01)
Post × Non-Free	1.11*** (0.10)	0.95*** (0.07)	1.01*** (0.08)	0.04* (0.02)	−0.00 (0.01)	0.01 (0.01)	0.00 (0.02)	−0.03*** (0.01)	−0.02 (0.01)
Traditional × Free	−0.22** (0.11)	−0.07 (0.07)	0.02 (0.07)	−0.00 (0.02)	−0.00 (0.01)	0.02** (0.01)	−0.02 (0.02)	−0.02** (0.01)	0.00 (0.01)
Traditional × Non-Free	0.20** (0.10)	0.04 (0.11)	−0.10 (0.07)	0.10*** (0.03)	0.01 (0.02)	0.00 (0.01)	0.09*** (0.03)	0.01 (0.01)	0.02* (0.01)
Traditional × Free × Post	0.10 (0.12)	0.19** (0.08)	0.07 (0.11)	−0.01 (0.02)	0.01 (0.01)	−0.01 (0.01)	0.00 (0.02)	0.01 (0.01)	−0.01 (0.01)
Traditional × Non-Free × Post	−0.11 (0.13)	0.06 (0.08)	0.07 (0.11)	−0.04 (0.03)	0.01 (0.01)	0.03** (0.01)	−0.05* (0.03)	−0.01 (0.01)	−0.01 (0.01)
Constant	90.82*** (0.15)	90.79*** (0.12)	95.69*** (0.65)	0.22*** (0.03)	0.23*** (0.02)	−2.76*** (0.06)	0.30*** (0.03)	0.32*** (0.02)	−2.97*** (0.07)
School fixed effects	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	No
Student fixed effects	No	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No	Yes
R-sqr	0.070	0.596	0.816	0.188	0.667	0.861	0.192	0.660	0.876
No. schools	827	827	827	827	827	827	827	827	827
No. observations	1,335,462	1,335,462	1,335,462	1,335,462	1,335,462	1,335,462	1,335,462	1,335,462	1,335,462

Note: Unbalanced panel. All models include demographic controls (Asian, Black, Hispanic, female, limited English proficiency), grade dummies (grades 3–7), and clustered standard errors.

Meal eligibility status fixed at baseline.

^*p < 0.10.

^**p < 0.05.

^***p < 0.010.