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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Dec 31.
Published in final edited form as: Econ Inq. 2012;50(1):82–93. doi: 10.1111/j.1465-7295.2010.00345.x

TABLE 3.

Effect of Schooling on Endogamy

Endogamy 1 2 3
Years of Schooling −0.015**
(0.002)		 −0.009**
(0.002)		 −0.001
(0.002)
Age 0.003**
(0.001)		 0.004**
(0.001)		 0.005**
(0.001)
Non-English Native Language 0.131**
(0.012)		 0.102**
(0.010)		 0.093**
(0.010)
Percentage of County Group Sharing Ethnicity 5.790**
(0.299)		 5.575**
(0.319)
Percentage of County Group Sharing Ethnicity Squared −11.860**
(1.064)		 −11.792**
(1.104)
Years of Schooling × (Mean Ethnic Schooling − Mean Schooling) 0.004**
(0.001)
Mean Ethnic Schooling − Mean Schooling −0.063**
(0.013)
Constant 0.200**
(0.050)		 −0.067
(0.042)		 −0.205**
(0.039)
Observations 39,489 39,489 39,489
R-squared 0.04 0.14 0.14

Notes: Mean ethnic schooling refers to the average years of schooling within the person’s ethnic group living within the person’s county group. Mean schooling refers to the overall average years of schooling in the person’s county group. Standard errors are clustered on ethnicity-county group cells.

**

p < .01,

*

p < .05,

+

p < .10.