Table 9.

Decomposing Minority Outcome Gaps among Girls

	Outcome without School Fixed Effects		Outcome with School Fixed Effects
	PVT	MGPA	PVT	MGPA
	A. Black
Mother’s characteristics, not race	−.089**	−.028	−.056**	−.021
	(.030)	(.023)	(.023)	(.022)
	[.113]	[.057]	[.071]	[.043]
Mother’s race	−.530**	−.244	−.358**	−.067
	(.166)	(.168)	(.110)	(.150)
	[.673]	[.498]	[.455]	[.136]
Father’s characteristics	−.131*	−.084**	−.091**	−.076**
	(.046)	(.029)	(.038)	(.028)
	[.166]	[.171]	[.116]	[.154]
School fixed effects	…	…	−.200**	−.191**
			(.075)	(.039)
			[.254]	[.389]
Total	−.749**	−.356**	−.705**	−.355**
	(.178)	(.165)	(.135)	(.151)
	[.952]	[.725]	[.896]	[.722]
Baseline gap	−.788**	−.491**	−.788**	−.491**
	(.076)	(.040)	(.076)	(.040)
	B. Hispanic
Mother’s characteristics, not race	−.151**	−.059**	−.122**	−.056**
	(.025)	(.018)	(.023)	(.018)
	[.184]	[.153]	[.149]	[.143]
Mother’s race	−.358**	−.044	−.365**	.063
	(.086)	(.078)	(.083)	(.080)
	[.438]	[.114]	[.445]	[−.162]
Father’s characteristics	−.133**	−.096**	−.083**	−.085**
	(.029)	(.025)	(.030)	(.024)
	[.163]	[.247]	[.101]	[.218]
School fixed effects	…	…	−.241**	−.145**
			(.093)	(.043)
			[.295]	[.373]
Total	−.643**	−.643**	−.810	−.223**
	(.097)	(.097)	(.129)	(.083)
	[.785]	[1.648]	[.990]	[.571]
Baseline gap	−.819**	−.390**	−.819**	−.390**
	(.082)	(.052)	(.082)	(.052)

Note.—Each cell contains the effect of each variable group on the white minority outcome gap. The standard error is in parentheses, and the fraction of the baseline gap explained is in brackets. Dependent variables are the normalized Add Health version of the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test and demeaned course-level GPA. 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.