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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jan 18.
Published in final edited form as: J Sch Choice. 2014 Mar 10;8(1):1–19. doi: 10.1080/15582159.2014.875406

Table A1.

Logistic Regression on Catholic School Attendance

Coef. Robust SE z P>|z|
Previous academic performance
  10th -grade math score 0.01 0.00 3.45 0.00
Demographics & family background
  Age −0.11 0.08 −1.42 0.16
  Male 0.16 0.08 2.10 0.04
  Asian 0.71 0.70 1.02 0.31
  Black 0.15 0.35 0.42 0.68
  Hispanic 0.22 0.40 0.56 0.58
  Other race 0.95 0.42 2.24 0.03
  Immigrant −0.25 0.17 −1.5 0.13
  English as native language 0.93 0.16 5.78 0.00
  Step parent −0.50 0.13 −3.76 0.00
  Single parent −0.25 0.11 −2.26 0.02
  No parent −0.13 0.24 −0.55 0.59
  Number of siblings −0.03 0.04 −0.67 0.50
  Mother does not work 0.44 0.12 3.73 0.00
  Mother works part time 0.15 0.12 1.29 0.20
  Socioeconomic status 0.51 0.12 4.09 0.00
  Catholic church affiliation 2.41 0.11 21.59 0.00
Policy variable 0.03 0.09 0.30 0.76
Public aid available for Catholic schooling
Spatial characteristics
  Neighborhood segregation −1.25 0.39 −3.12 0.01
  Neighborhood crime: moderate 0.25 0.14 1.74 0.08
  Neighborhood crime: high 0.60 0.29 2.04 0.04
  Neighborhood poverty rate 2.45 1.64 1.49 0.14
  # public schools within 6 miles 0.04 0.01 6.24 0.00
  Cross school districts 1.76 0.09 19.12 0.00
  Urban 0.84 0.26 3.17 0.02
  Northeast 0.38 0.12 3.12 0.00
  Midwest 0.08 0.12 0.73 0.47
  West −0.44 0.13 −3.29 0.00
Interaction terms
  Black * immigrant 0.46 0.34 1.35 0.18
  Asian * immigrant 0.08 0.54 0.16 0.88
  Hispanic * immigrant 0.17 0.27 0.64 0.52
  Other race * immigrant −0.07 0.43 −0.17 0.86
  Black * SES 0.13 0.20 0.66 0.51
  Asian * SES 0.26 0.22 1.17 0.24
  Hispanic * SES 1.04 0.17 6.21 0.00
  Other race * SES −0.10 0.29 −0.32 0.75
  Black * mother not work −0.06 0.33 −0.20 0.84
  Asian * mother not work 0.40 0.39 1.03 0.30
  Hispanic * mother not work −0.25 0.26 −0.97 0.33
  Other race * mother not work 0.09 0.48 0.19 0.85
  Black * mother works PT 0.67 0.35 1.89 0.06
  Asian * mother works PT −0.36 0.48 −0.74 0.46
  Hispanic * mother works PT −0.12 0.30 −0.39 0.70
  Other race * mother works PT −0.66 0.61 −1.08 0.28
  Black * # siblings −0.18 0.08 −2.18 0.03
  Asian * # siblings −0.34 0.15 −2.27 0.02
  Hispanic * # siblings −0.32 0.09 −3.61 0.00
  Other race * # siblings −0.24 0.13 −1.83 0.07
  # siblings * SES| 0.05 0.05 1.17 0.24
  Black * Catholic Affiliation −0.81 0.29 −2.79 0.01
  Asian * Catholic Affiliation −0.82 0.36 −2.28 0.02
  Hispanic * Catholic Affiliation −0.11 0.35 −0.3 0.77
  Other race * Catholic Affiliation −0.50 0.40 −1.23 0.22
  Urban * neighborhood segregation 1.91 0.40 4.72 0.00
  Black*urban*neighborhood segregation 0.51 0.58 0.88 0.38
  Asian*urban*neighborhood segregation 0.80 0.67 1.19 0.24
  Hispanic*urban*neighborhood Segregation 0.53 0.46 1.16 0.25
  Other*urban * neighborhood segregation 0.28 0.64 0.44 0.66
  Neighborhood segregation * poverty −9.88 2.84 −3.48 0.00
  Urban* # public schools in 6 miles −0.01 0.01 −0.98 0.51

Note: The number of observations is 9,240. According to the rules and regulations for the use of NCES restricted datasets, the numbers of observations reported throughout the document are rounded by 10 digits.

Wald Chi2= 1396.05; prob> Chi2=0.0000; log pseudo likelihood=-1462.67; pseudo R2=0.305.