Table 4.
Attractiveness and Early Human Capital Formation
| Variables | (1)
|
(2)
|
(3)
|
(4)
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Varsity Sports | Student Government | Service Organizations | Total Number of Activities | |
| Beauty (standardized) | 0.058*** (0.009) |
0.033*** (0.007) |
−0.008 (0.006) |
0.266*** (0.049) |
| IQ score (SD) | 0.014 (0.009) |
0.080*** (0.007) |
0.034*** (0.006) |
0.687*** (0.050) |
| Father’s education | 0.007** (0.003) |
0.007*** (0.002) |
0.005** (0.002) |
0.105*** (0.019) |
| Mother’s education | 0.008** (0.004) |
−0.000 (0.003) |
−0.000 (0.003) |
0.046** (0.021) |
| Father executive | 0.025 (0.031) |
−0.006 (0.022) |
0.036* (0.021) |
0.414** (0.175) |
| Family income ’57 | 0.000 (0.015) |
0.016 (0.011) |
0.018* (0.010) |
0.253*** (0.084) |
| Farm background | −0.101*** (0.025) |
−0.018 (0.018) |
−0.053*** (0.015) |
−0.276** (0.139) |
| Medium hometown population | −0.188*** (0.024) |
−0.050*** (0.018) |
0.024 (0.017) |
−1.537*** (0.139) |
| Large hometown population | −0.176*** (0.032) |
−0.009 (0.024) |
0.166*** (0.030) |
−1.531*** (0.186) |
| Number of siblings | −0.004 (0.004) |
−0.005 (0.003) |
−0.005* (0.003) |
−0.050** (0.021) |
| Lived with both parents | 0.004 (0.037) |
−0.022 (0.028) |
−0.017 (0.025) |
−0.042 (0.204) |
| Mother employed | 0.019 (0.019) |
0.017 (0.014) |
−0.022* (0.012) |
0.133 (0.106) |
| High school class size | −0.001*** (0.000) |
−0.001*** (0.000) |
−0.000*** (0.000) |
−0.006*** (0.000) |
| Observations | 3,431 | 3,431 | 3,431 | 3,431 |
| R2 | 0.0839 | 0.1021 | 0.0758 | 0.238 |
Reported numbers are coefficients (standard errors in parentheses). Significant at *10%, **5%, ***1%. Marginal effects and pseudo R2 are reported in probit regressions (columns 1–3). Sample exclusions are the same as in table 1.