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Table 6 Results by gender for Danish and Math exam grades

From: The impact of parents’ years since migration on children’s academic achievement

  

Danish exam

Math exam

  

Basic OLS

Sibling fixed effects a

Basic OLS

Sibling fixed effects a

  

Boys

Girls

Boys

Girls

Boys

Girls

Boys

Girls

Mother: years since migration

5-9

0.056*

0.017

0.077

−0.049

0.012

−0.050(*)

0.016

−0.008

  

(0.025)

(0.025)

(0.049

(0.046)

(0.029)

(0.028)

(0.058)

(0.053)

 

10-13

0.067(*)

0.138***

0.213*

0.000

0.048

0.006

0.195(*)

0.099

  

(0.035)

(0.035)

(0.095)

(0.083)

(0.041)

(0.039)

(0.113)

(0.095)

 

14+

0.201***

0.190***

0.362***

0.035

0.139**

0.066

−0.006

0.046

  

(0.042)

(0.041)

(0.139)

(0.116)

(0.048)

(0.045)

(0.164)

(0.133)

Father: years since migration

5-9

0.040

0.046(*)

0.008

−0.001

0.053(*)

0.075**

−0.054

0.055

  

(0.025)

(0.024)

(0.056)

(0.049)

(0.029)

(0.027)

(0.066)

(0.056)

 

10-13

0.041

0.050

0.075

−0.104

0.053

0.099*

0.043

0.084

  

(0.035)

(0.035)

(0.094)

(0.082)

(0.041)

(0.039)

(0.110)

(0.094)

 

14+

0.110**

0.122***

0.169

−0.222*

0.144***

0.149***

0.142

0.049

  

(0.037)

(0.036)

(0.122)

(0.108)

(0.042)

(0.041)

(0.145)

(0.123)

N (students)

 

9,361

9,89

2,796

3,386

9,237

9,698

2,744

3,281

N(families)

   

1,334

1,578

  

1,311

1,531

adj. R 2

 

0.126

0.129

0.465

0.484

0.131

0.124

0.461

0.463

  1. Standard errors in parentheses. (*) p < .10, * p < .05, ** p < .01, *** p < .001.
  2. a Effects for mother's and father's YSM are joined in one column to save space. They are estimated.
  3. However, in separate regressions, just as in the previous tables.