Table 4. 
The Effect of the Mandatory ACT on Postsecondary Enrollment
Dep. Var. = Any EnrollmentDep. Var. = Four-Year EnrollmentDep. Var. = Two-Year Enrollment
Nearest Neighbor MatchingKernel MatchingP-Score WeightingNearest Neighbor MatchingKernel MatchingP-Score WeightingNearest Neighbor MatchingKernel MatchingP-Score Weighting
(1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9)(10)(11)(12)(13)(14)(15)
Post * No test 0.005 0.003 0.003 0.003 0.004 0.008* 0.008* 0.006 0.006 0.007* −0.003 −0.005 −0.003 −0.002 −0.002 
center in school (0.005) (0.004) (0.004) (0.004) (0.004) (0.004) (0.004) (0.004) (0.004) (0.004) (0.004) (0.005) (0.004) (0.004) (0.004) 
Post 0.019*** 0.029*** 0.016*** 0.015*** 0.014*** 0.008** 0.016*** 0.011*** 0.011*** 0.011*** 0.012*** 0.013*** 0.005 0.004 0.004 
 (0.003) (0.005) (0.003) (0.003) (0.003) (0.003) (0.004) (0.003) (0.003) (0.003) (0.003) (0.005) (0.003) (0.003) (0.003) 
No test center in −0.022 −0.014    −0.015 −0.014*    −0.007 0.000    
school (0.015) (0.011)    (0.015) (0.008)    (0.012) (0.011)    
Covariates 
School fixed effects 
Pre-policy mean 0.587 0.590 0.588 0.321 0.320 0.317 0.266 0.270 0.271 
Sample size 536,813 614,974 701,765 536,813 614,974 701,765 536,813 614,974 701,765 
Dep. Var. = Any EnrollmentDep. Var. = Four-Year EnrollmentDep. Var. = Two-Year Enrollment
Nearest Neighbor MatchingKernel MatchingP-Score WeightingNearest Neighbor MatchingKernel MatchingP-Score WeightingNearest Neighbor MatchingKernel MatchingP-Score Weighting
(1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9)(10)(11)(12)(13)(14)(15)
Post * No test 0.005 0.003 0.003 0.003 0.004 0.008* 0.008* 0.006 0.006 0.007* −0.003 −0.005 −0.003 −0.002 −0.002 
center in school (0.005) (0.004) (0.004) (0.004) (0.004) (0.004) (0.004) (0.004) (0.004) (0.004) (0.004) (0.005) (0.004) (0.004) (0.004) 
Post 0.019*** 0.029*** 0.016*** 0.015*** 0.014*** 0.008** 0.016*** 0.011*** 0.011*** 0.011*** 0.012*** 0.013*** 0.005 0.004 0.004 
 (0.003) (0.005) (0.003) (0.003) (0.003) (0.003) (0.004) (0.003) (0.003) (0.003) (0.003) (0.005) (0.003) (0.003) (0.003) 
No test center in −0.022 −0.014    −0.015 −0.014*    −0.007 0.000    
school (0.015) (0.011)    (0.015) (0.008)    (0.012) (0.011)    
Covariates 
School fixed effects 
Pre-policy mean 0.587 0.590 0.588 0.321 0.320 0.317 0.266 0.270 0.271 
Sample size 536,813 614,974 701,765 536,813 614,974 701,765 536,813 614,974 701,765 

Notes: The sample is all first-time, public school Michigan eleventh graders in years 2004–09, conditional on reaching spring of eleventh grade. For columns 1–3, 6–8, and 11–13, the sample is restricted to the 226 schools without a pre-policy ACT test center and the 226 schools with a pre-policy test center matched using single nearest neighbor matching without replacement. An Epanechnikov kernel and bandwidth of 0.06 is used in columns 4, 9, and 14. Each column is a separate linear probability model regression. Standard errors in parentheses are clustered at the school level.

*Significant at the 10% level; **significant at the 5% level; ***significant at the 1% level.

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