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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 3.

Causal Effects of Single-Sex Schools on Students' Choice of the Science-Math Test (over the General-Math Test)

Choice of Science-Math Test
2004 2005 2006 2008 2009 2010 2011 2004-11
Panel A. Girls
All-girls schools (vs. coed) −0.003 (0.054) 0.004 (0.070) 0.007 (0.070) 0.000 (0.062) −0.031 (0.070) −0.013 (0.070) 0.028 (0.061) −0.005 (0.049)
Private schools (vs. public) 0.048 (0.061) 0.074 (0.074) 0.077 (0.068) 0.050 (0.065) 0.045 (0.069) 0.044 (0.060) 0.033 (0.056) 0.051 (0.048)
Constant −1.486 *** (0.080) −1.642 *** (0.109) −1.808 *** (0.101) −1.707 *** (0.085) −1.766 *** (0.087) −1.734 *** (0.091) −1.634 *** (0.095) −1.441 *** (0.072)
N 38,711 38,547 38,798 37,497 43,335 42,542 40,644 280,074
Panel B. Boys
All-boys schools (vs. coed) 0.036 (0.057) 0.073 (0.058) 0.118 * (0.064) 0.083 (0.052) 0.042 (0.052) 0.145 ** (0.059) 0.084 (0.055) 0.081 * (0.042)
Private schools (vs. public) −0.003 (0.057) 0.080 (0.062) −0.012 (0.064) −0.001 (0.052) 0.124 ** (0.050) 0.028 (0.058) 0.033 (0.051) 0.035 (0.044)
Constant −0.676 *** (0.095) −0.889 *** (0.089) −0.970 *** (0.114) −0.761 *** (0.069) −0.849 *** (0.078) −0.799 *** (0.085) −0.707 *** (0.091) −0.583 *** (0.075)
N 43,801 42,189 42,561 41,085 47,639 47,629 47,090 311,994

Note : We control for dummy variables for school districts and cohorts but not reported here.

*

significant at 10%

**

significant at 5%

***

significant at 1%.