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Published in final edited form as: J Hum Cap. 2015 Summer;9(2):198–238. doi: 10.1086/681957

Table 8.

Decomposing Minority Outcome Gaps among Boys

	Outcome without School Fixed Effects			Outcome with School Fixed Effects
	PVT	MGPA	LWAGE	PVT	MGPA	LWAGE
	A. Black
Mother’s characteristics, not race	−.106^**	−.051^*	−.054^**	−.072^**	−.036	−.044^**
	(.027)	(.027)	(.022)	(.024)	(.026)	(.020)
	[.124]	[.126]	[.215]	[.085]	[.088]	[.174]
Mother’s race	−.612^**	−.443^**	−.197^*	−.393^**	−.366^**	−.197^*
	(.123)	(.099)	(.098)	(.119)	(.103)	(.103)
	[.716]	[1.082]	[.778]	[.460]	[.894]	[.777]
Father’s variables	−.100^*	−.051	−.043	−.054	−.009	−.044
	(.059)	(.037)	(.028)	(.038)	(.036)	(.028)
	[.117]	[.125]	[.171]	[.063]	[.022]	[.175]
School fixed effects	…	…	…	−.181^**	−.184^**	−.022
				(.065)	(.047)	(.034)
				[.211]	[.449]	[.088]
Total	−.818^**	−.545^**	−.294^**	−.700^**	−.594^**	−.307^**
	(.134)	(.099)	(.094)	(.103)	(.103)	(.095)
	[.957]	[1.333]	[1.164]	[.819]	[1.453]	[1.215]
Baseline gap	−.855^**	−.409^**	−.253^**	−.855^**	−.409^**	−.253^**
Baseline gap	(.073)	(.051)	(.041)	(.073)	(.051)	(.041)

	B. Hispanic
Mother’s characteristics, not race	−.202^**	−.029	−.082^**	−.155^**	−.014	−.063^**
	(.028)	(.020)	(.017)	(.023)	(.019)	(.016)
	[.275]	[.127]	[1.170]	[.199]	[.060]	[.682]
Mother’s race	−.403^**	−.142^*	−.017	−.360^**	−.141	−.054
	(.098)	(.078)	(.062)	(.090)	(.075)	(.064)
	[.550]	[.620]	[.242]	[.464]	[.614]	[.580]
Father’s characteristics	−.128^**	.027	−.075^**	−.100^**	.030	−.071^**
	(.048)	(.034)	(.025)	(.042)	(.032)	(.025)
	[.175]	[−.119]	[1.058]	[.129]	[−.131]	[.767]
School fixed effects	…	…	…	−.161^**	−.105	.095^**
				(.056)	(.051)	(.042)
				[.208]	[.457]	[−1.029]
Total	−.733^**	−.143^*	−.174^**	−.776^**	−.230^**	−.092
	(.108)	(.074)	(.068)	(.103)	(.080)	(.073)
	[.895]	[.628]	[2.470]	[.948]	[1.009]	[1.309]
Baseline gap	−.819^**	−.228^**	−.070^*	−.819^**	−.228^**	−.070^*
Baseline gap	(.082)	(.056)	(.037)	(.082)	(.056)	(.037)

Note.—Each cell contains the effect of each variable group on the white minority outcome gap. The standard errors are in parentheses, and the fraction of the baseline outcome gap explained is in brackets. Dependent variables are the normalized Add Health version of the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, demeaned course-level GPA, and log wages at wave IV. All regressions include child age, and GPA regressions include course-by-year fixed effects for math. White and white mom are omitted. Characteristics are listed in the note to table 7.

Significant at the 10 percent level.

^**

Significant at the 5 percent level.