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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jul 19.
Published in final edited form as: J Hum Cap. 2015 Summer;9(2):198–238. doi: 10.1086/681957

Table 4.

Mean Location Characteristics

Group
White Students Black Students Black with White Mom Hispanic Students Hispanic with White Mom
% population white .921 .371* .739* .664* .835*
(.008) (.029) (.035) (.032) (.021)
[8,238] [2,992] [132] [2,164] [318]
% population black .048 .592* 202* .105* .065
(.007) (.031) (.032) (.015) (.017)
[8,238] [2,992] [132] [2,164] [318]
% < 1989 poverty .108 .267* .151y .200* .126−
(.008) (.016) (.028) (.015) (.013)
[8,238] [2,991] [132] [2,164] [318]
School level:
 % students black .098 .550* .264* .169* .136
(.013) (.048) (.054) (.022) (.024)
[8,044] [2,981] [131] [2,101] [308]
 Average income 48.5 35.9* 43.0− 36.9 45.9
(1.8) (2.2) (4.4) (2.2) (2.6)
[7,445] [2,558] [120] [1,786] [285]
 Average AHPVT .191 −.324* .020 −.341* −.020*
(.035) (.088) (.148) (.078) (.119)
[7,987] [2,876] [127] [2,085] [306]

Note.—Standard errors for means in are parentheses; sample sizes are in brackets. All variables are measured at wave I. Block group means are from the 1990 census.

*

Significantly different from the white student mean at the 5 percent level.

Significantly different from the own minority group mean (black or Hispanic) at the 5 percent level.