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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Mar 18.
Published in final edited form as: Econ Educ Rev. 2017 Nov 8;62:35–47. doi: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2017.10.007

Table 2.

Causal Effects of Single-Sex Schools on Math Test Scores

Math Test Score
2004 2005 2006 2008 2009 2010 2011 2004-11
Panel A. Girls - General-math test score
All-girls schools (vs. coed) 0.055 (0.048) 0.042 (0.048) 0.060 (0.049) 0.066 (0.047) 0.048 (0.047) 0.031 (0.051) 0.035 (0.045) 0.048 (0.044)
Private schools (vs. public) 0.014 (0.052) 0.045 (0.054) 0.038 (0.053) 0.028 (0.049) 0.009 (0.045) 0.024 (0.050) 0.046 (0.042) 0.030 (0.045)
Constant 0.020 (0.085) −0.038 (0.098) 0.036 (0.089) −0.019 (0.084) 0.068 (0.083) 0.055 (0.098) 0.036 (0.082) 0.005 (0.082)
N 26,266 26,716 28,229 28,264 33,748 33,057 31,256 207,536
Panel B. Girls - Science-math test score
All-girls schools (vs. coed) 0.039 (0.054) 0.042 (0.055) 0.077 (0.054) 0.032 (0.057) 0.053 (0.066) 0.068 (0.060) −0.006 (0.072) 0.046 (0.047)
Private schools (vs. public) 0.017 (0.067) −0.052 (0.065) −0.048 (0.061) −0.083 (0.066) −0.049 (0.068) −0.099 (0.064) 0.035 (0.072) −0.036 (0.053)
Constant 0.109 (0.116) 0.070 (0.087) −0.111 (0.092) −0.031 (0.118) 0.031 (0.106) 0.086 (0.109) −0.000 (0.102) 0.099 (0.097)
N 6,919 6,035 5,316 5,310 5,881 5,822 6,066 41,349
Panel C. Boys - General-math test score
All-boys schools (vs. coed) 0.071 * (0.043) 0.057 (0.038) 0.086 ** (0.039) 0.085 ** (0.040) 0.089 ** (0.041) 0.049 (0.035) 0.094 ** (0.038) 0.077 ** (0.033)
Private schools (vs. public) 0.029 (0.043) 0.023 (0.047) 0.046 (0.042) 0.028 (0.040) 0.061 (0.043) 0.037 (0.040) 0.010 (0.043) 0.034 (0.037)
Constant −0.027 (0.060) −0.087 (0.063) −0.122 ** (0.061) −0.090 (0.064) −0.084 (0.074) −0.048 (0.062) −0.064 (0.051) −0.071 (0.057)
N 25,019 25,260 27,970 27,080 31,429 31,371 30,161 198,290
Panel D. Boys - Science-math test score
All-boys schools (vs. coed) 0.064 (0.053) 0.099 ** (0.047) 0.060 (0.052) 0.084 (0.060) 0.020 (0.053) 0.024 (0.046) 0.067 (0.059) 0.059 (0.041)
Private schools (vs. public) 0.034 (0.058) −0.025 (0.058) 0.026 (0.059) 0.020 (0.060) −0.014 (0.056) 0.001 (0.047) 0.026 (0.052) 0.012 (0.045)
Constant −0.024 (0.087) 0.054 (0.083) 0.018 (0.067) −0.083 (0.090) 0.050 (0.094) 0.020 (0.085) −0.037 (0.099) −0.027 (0.076)
N 14,901 12,578 10,925 11,619 13,731 13,902 14,681 92,337

Note : Each math test score is standardized to have a mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 1 in each year. We control for dummy variables for school districts and cohorts but not reported here.

*

significant at 10%

**

significant at 5%

***

significant at 1%.