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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Aug 14.
Published in final edited form as: Health Econ. 2019 Jun 4;28(8):955–970. doi: 10.1002/hec.3885

Table 6.

Probit Models of Special Education or Early Intervention Services for Emotional or Behavioral Problems

Panel A. Effects of State Unemployment Rate
(1) (2)

Marginal Effect 0.00091** 0.00113*
(SE) (0.0004) (0.00058)
Mean, Dep. Var. 0.024 0.024
Relative Effect of 1.51 Percentage Point Fall in Unemployment Rate –5.7% –7.1%
Area-Specific Linear Time Trends No Yes

Panel B. Effects of State Housing Price Index
(1) (2)

Marginal Effect –0.0041* –0.0015
(SE) (0.0023) (0.0024)
Mean, Dep. Var. 0.024 0.024
Relative Effect of 0.19 Point Rise in Housing Price Index –3.2% –1.2%
Area-Specific Linear Time Trends No Yes

Sample size 240,006 240,006

Note: Robust standard errors clustered on the state. A fall in unemployment rate of 1.51 percentage points and a rise in HPI of 0.19 represent one standard deviation improvements in economic conditions. Covariates are described in Table 2.

*

p-value <.10

**

p-value<.05

***

p-value<.01.