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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jan 4.
Published in final edited form as: Q J Econ. 2015;130(3):1329–1367. doi: 10.1093/qje/qjv021

TABLE III.

Effect of Public Treatment on Sign-up Decision

(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6)
Dependent variable Dummy: student signed up for the SAT prep course
Public treatment −0.1083***
[0.040]
−0.1195***
[0.040]
−0.1231***
[0.040]
0.0157
[0.033]
0.0095
[0.032]
0.0092
[0.031]
Inference robustness (p-values)
 Robust standard
  errors
.007 .003 .002 .631 .766 .766
 Wild bootstrap .012 .006 .002 .596 .706 .720
 Permutation test .006 .001 .002 .480 .748 .749
Mean of private
 take-up
0.717 0.917
Includes individual
 covariates
No Yes Yes No Yes Yes
Includes classroom
 and surveyor
 fixed effects
No No Yes No No Yes
Observations 560 531 531 265 258 258
R-squared 0.013 0.042 0.104 0.001 0.035 0.139
Sample Nonhonors classes Honors classes

Notes. Columns (1) to (3) restrict the sample to nonhonors classes, and columns (4) to (6) restrict to honors classes. Columns (1) and (4) present OLS regressions of a dummy variable for whether the student signed up for the SAT prep course on a public sign-up dummy. columns (2) and (5) replicate and add individual covariates (age and dummies for male and Hispanic). columns (3) and (6) further add surveyor and classroom fixed effects. Robust standard errors in brackets. *** p < .01, ** p < .05, * p < .1. See Section III.D for a description of the wild bootstrap and permutation test procedures.