Table 2
Adjusted Gaps in College Participation
A. P ercentage of Population Credit Constrained
White Black Hispanic Overall
Males Females Males Females Males Females
Enrollment .0515 .0449 -.0047 .0543 .0433 -.0789 .0419
Complete 4-year College -.0621 .0579 -.0612 -.0106 .0910 .0908 -.0438
Complete 2-y ear College .0901 .0436 -.0684 -.0514 .2285 .0680 .0774
Proportion of People Not Delaying College Entry .0872 -.0197 -.1125 -.1128 .1253 -.0053 .0594
Enrollment in 4-year vs. 2-year College .0646 .0491 .1088 .0024 .1229 -.0915 .0587
B. Percentage of the Population Credit Constrained - Only Statistically Significant Gaps
White Black Hispanic Overall
Males Females Males Females Males Females
Enrollment 0 .0095 0 .0164 .0278 -.0139 .0018
Complete 4-ye ar College -.0545 .0089 -.0596 0 0 0 .0461
Complete 2-ye ar College 0 0 0 0 0 .0409 .0020
Proportion of People Not Delaying College Entry .0714 -.0318 -.0190 .0459 .0487 0 .0538
Enrollment in 4-year vs. 2-year College .0530 0 0 0 0 -.0451 .0391
C. Percentage of Population Family Constrained
White Black Hispanic Overall
Males Females Males Females Males Females
Enrollment .3123 .3280 .2658 .2420 .3210 .2923 .2623
Complete 4-year College .2723 .2338 .1435 .0738 .4950 .0205 .1958
Complete 2-year College -.1718 -.0350 -.0763 -.0565 -.1945 .2168 -.0785
Proportion of People Not Delaying College Entry .1965 .1898 .1910 .0460 .1950 .1360 .1135
Enrollment in 4-year vs. 2-year College .0568 .2423 .1643 .1143 .1533 .0738 .1155
D. Percentage of Population Family Constrained - Only Statistically Significant Gaps
White Black Hispanic Overall
Males Females Males Females M ales Females
Enrollment .3123 .3280 .2378 .2420 .3210 .2923 .2623
Complete 4-year College .2723 .2338 .0960 0 .4950 0 .1958
Complete 2-year College -.1408 0 0 0 0 .1678 -.0730
Proportion of People Not Delaying College Entry .1718 .1328 .1403 0 .1560 0 .1135
Enrollment in 4-year vs. 2-year College .0333 .2423 .1350 .0848 .1225 0 .1155
Notes: Credit constraint s are measured in the following way. Within each AFQT tertile, regress enrollment (completion,
delay) on quartiles of the distribution of family income at 17 and family bac kground variables (south, broken, urban,
mother’s education, father’s education): | = + I + T
1
1
+ T
2
2
+ T
3
3
, where | is enrollment (completion, delay),
I is a vector of family background variables, T
1
is a dummy for being in the first quartile of the family income distribution,
T
2
for the second and T
3
for the third. Within each AF QT tertile, the percentage of people constrained in eac h
quartile of family income is measured by
1
,
2
and
3
, which are gaps in average enrollment (completion, delay) between
each quartile and the top quartile of the family income. To get the numbers in the table we multiply the measured gap in
enrollment (completion, delay) for each quartile relativ e to the highest quartile by the percentage of people in that AFQT
tertile-Family Income quartile. Within each AF QT tertile we add over the three bottom quartiles of family income and then
add over the three tertiles of AFQT to get the number of credit constrained people in the population. When computing
family constraints we use a family background index which is a linear combination of south, broken, urban, mother’s
education, father’s education and AFQT. The coe!cien ts for this linear combination are obtained by doing a linear
regression of enrollmen t (completion, delay) on the variables composing the index. We then construct quartiles of this index.
Family constraints are measured in the following way. Regress enrollment (completion, delay) on the family background
quartile and family income at age 17: | = + T
1
1
+ T
2
2
+ T
3
3
+ Lqf17, where | is enrollmen t (completion , delay),
T
1
is a dummy for being in the first quartile of the family background index, T
2
for the second and T
3
for the third,
and Lqf17 is family income at age 17. The percenta ge of people constrained in each quartile of the family background
index is measured by
1
,
2
,and
3
, which are gaps in average enrollment (completion, delay) between each quartile
and the top quartile of the family background index. To get the numbers in the table we multiply the measured gap in
enrollment (completion, delay) for each quartile relative to the highest quartile by the percentage of people in that quartile.
Then we add over the three bottom quartiles to get the n umber of family constrained people in the population. The
coe!cien ts for these regressions for white males are presented in the appendix tables B-1 and B-2. Results for the other
demographic groups are available on request from the authors.