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Table 2.

Community College Enrollment and Subsequent Employment and Earnings: Education Longitudinal Survey, High School Class of 2004

	Employment			ln(Earnings)
Independent variable	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)	(6)
Enrolled in community college	0.052	0.026	0.094	0.284^**	0.199^*	0.197^**
	(0.032)	(0.036)	(0.054)	(0.091)	(0.097)	(0.067)
High school fixed effects	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Estimator	OLS	OLS	IPW	OLS	OLS	IPW
N	3,025	3,025	2,272	2,669	2,669	1,903
Number of high schools	–	628	225	–	615	243
R²	0.065	0.301		0.069	0.278

	Employment			ln(Earnings)
Independent variable	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)	(6)
Enrolled in community college	0.052	0.026	0.094	0.284^**	0.199^*	0.197^**
	(0.032)	(0.036)	(0.054)	(0.091)	(0.097)	(0.067)
High school fixed effects	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Estimator	OLS	OLS	IPW	OLS	OLS	IPW
N	3,025	3,025	2,272	2,669	2,669	1,903
Number of high schools	–	628	225	–	615	243
R²	0.065	0.301		0.069	0.278

Notes: All models control for respondent race, gender, potential labor market experience (quadratic), parental education, family income when in 10th grade, and performance on standardized reading and math assessments in high school. See text for details. Standard errors in parentheses. OLS = ordinary least squares; IPW = inverse probability weight.

^*p < 0.05; ^**p < 0.01.

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