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Published in final edited form as: Sociol Educ. 2015 Sep 4;88(4):320–339. doi: 10.1177/0038040715602132

Table 3.

Median Regressions of 10-year Cumulative Log-transformed Earnings by Age Group, Women

		Age 20s		Age 30s		Age 40s		Age 50s
		Coeffi.	(S.E.)	Coeffi.	(S.E.)	Coeffi.	(S.E.)	Coeffi.	(S.E.)
(Ref = High School Graduate)
BA	Business	0.691	(0.056)^***	0.832	(0.053) ^***^#	0.686	(0.060) ^***	0.600	(0.089) ^***
	STEM	0.966	(0.088) ^***	0.990	(0.092) ^***	0.825	(0.123) ^***	0.963	(0.182) ^***
	Health Science	0.705	(0.068) ^***	0.838	(0.060) ^***	0.669	(0.065) ^***	0.748	(0.097) ^***
	Social Sci, History, Psychology, Comm	0.471	(0.064) ^***	0.528	(0.062) ^***	0.373	(0.071) ^***	0.346	(0.096) ^**
	Education	0.271	(0.069) ^***	0.299	(0.057) ^***	0.390	(0.052) ^***	0.424	(0.060) ^***
	Liberal Arts/Humanities, Art, Architect	0.487	(0.068) ^***^#	0.625	(0.062) ^***^#	0.316	(0.066) ^***^#	−0.030	(0.082)
	Others	0.616	(0.060) ^***^#	0.757	(0.055) ^***^#	0.613	(0.061) ^***^#	0.367	(0.086) ^***
Grad	Business	0.993	(0.096) ^***	1.312	(0.085) ^***^#	1.205	(0.098) ^***^#	0.721	(0.161) ^***
	STEM	0.859	(0.122) ^***	1.281	(0.115) ^***^#	0.855	(0.125) ^***	0.846	(0.150) ^***
	Medicine, Dentistry	0.531	(0.162) ^**	1.564	(0.138) ^***^#	1.327	(0.146) ^***^#	0.759	(0.228) ^**
	Law	0.693	(0.110) ^***	1.210	(0.104) ^***	0.966	(0.123) ^***	0.886	(0.200) ^***
	Social Sci, History, Psychology, Comm	0.590	(0.107) ^***	0.861	(0.090) ^***	0.805	(0.085) ^***	0.729	(0.112) ^***
	Education	0.695	(0.077) ^***	0.972	(0.064) ^***^#	0.886	(0.058) ^***	0.773	(0.068) ^***
	Liberal Arts/Humanities, Art, Architect	0.537	(0.120) ^***	0.699	(0.110) ^***	0.656	(0.104) ^***	0.491	(0.127) ^***
	Others	0.676	(0.079) ^***^#	0.981	(0.069) ^***	0.897	(0.069) ^***	0.946	(0.087) ^***
[Variance of the 15 Estimated Coefficients]		[0.036]		[0.108]		[0.082]		[0.074]
Sample Size		4,237		8,537		7,550		4,715
Pseudo R-squared		0.087		0.095		0.092		0.102

Notes: Numbers within parentheses are standard errors. Estimates use SIPP weights adjusted for non-matched respondents. All models control for race/ethnicity, birth year, region of birth, high school type, years since the highest degree, college preparation courses, math/science AP courses, and year of survey.

< .05;

^**

< .01;

^***

< .001 (two-tailed tests).

indicates a statistically significant age difference compared to Age 50s at alpha=.05.