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Published in final edited form as: J Hum Resour. 2011 Jun 20;46(3):482–517. doi: 10.3368/jhr.46.3.482

Appendix Table 6.

Predicting Empirical Kink Points

Dependent Variable: Empirical Kink Point
	White Non- Hispanic	White Non- Hispanic	Black Non- Hispanic	Black Non- Hispanic	Hispanic	Hispanic
	Unweighted	Weighted	Unweighted	Weighted	Unweighted	Weighted
	I	II	III	IV	V	VI
Reference Group Median	0.8211^** (0.1482)	0.8196^** (0.1905)	0.6371^** (0.1938)	0.5676 (0.3820)	0.6930^* (0.2573)	0.6579 (0.4770)
Year^*Ed Group Dummies	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes
CMSA Dummies	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes

Number of Observations	1171	1171	474	474	255	255
R-Squared	0.540	0.671	0.573	0.595	0.564	0.604

Notes: Standard errors in parentheses are clustered on CMSA.

^{+, *,**}

indicate staistical significance at the 10, 5, and 1 percent level respectively. The unit of observation is the metropolitan area-race/ethnicity-education-year cell. Weighted regressions are weighted by estimated reference group population.