Table 1 Education and labor market outcomes: summary statistics

From: Is it worth it? Postsecondary education and labor market outcomes for the disadvantaged

A. All students and workers
Quarterly earnings	$5,227.36
	(4572.22)
N	3,975,013
Educational attainment
HS	0.693
Voc/Cert	0.044
AA	0.159
BA or above	0.193
N	393,213
Enrollment
Voc/Cert	0.106
AA	0.529
BA	0.283
Completion
Voc/Cert	0.419
AA	0.300
BA	0.592
B. By race/gender
	White		Black		Hispanic
	Male	Female	Male	Female	Male	Female
Quarterly earnings	$5,746.43	5,245.16	4,237.60	4,140.88	5,654.21	5,473.62
	(4967.67)	(4575.25)	(3779.69)	(3625.38)	(4638.84)	(4332.01)
N	1,243,071	906,996	528,548	463,994	415,221	320,809
Educational attainment
HS	0.716	0.774	0.531	0.664	0.619	0.700
Voc/Cert	0.063	0.037	0.034	0.040	0.048	0.025
AA	0.137	0.209	0.066	0.132	0.135	0.206
BA or above	0.168	0.266	0.075	0.170	0.125	0.217
Enrollment
Voc/Cert	0.113	0.082	0.121	0.147	0.116	0.085
AA	0.459	0.561	0.433	0.594	0.556	0.640
BA	0.255	0.347	0.157	0.265	0.224	0.322
Completion
Voc/Cert	0.555	0.445	0.281	0.274	0.414	0.289
AA	0.299	0.373	0.153	0.222	0.243	0.322
BA	0.580	0.658	0.422	0.549	0.494	0.573
C. By FRL/gender
	Non-FRL		FRL
	Male	Female	Male	Female
Quarterly earnings	$5,943.05	5,610.97	4,740.15	4,236.17
	(5138.77)	(4755.39)	(3965.59)	(3555.97)
N	1,241,573	968,371	865,102	698,666
Educational attainment
HS	0.744	0.812	0.589	0.671
Voc/Cert	0.059	0.035	0.044	0.037
AA	0.145	0.217	0.087	0.147
BA or above	0.187	0.295	0.065	0.126
Enrollment
Voc/Cert	0.113	0.085	0.118	0.120
AA	0.501	0.590	0.448	0.588
BA	0.288	0.389	0.139	0.211
Completion
Voc/Cert	0.521	0.408	0.377	0.310
AA	0.290	0.368	0.194	0.249
BA	0.572	0.648	0.421	0.519

Notes: The number of quarterly earning observations are the number of labor market quarters observed while educational outcomes are calculated out of unique students. Standard deviations for continuous variables are in parentheses below their corresponding means. All postsecondary attainment and enrollment are conditional upon HS graduation. Completion for a degree level is conditional upon enrollment in that degree.

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