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Table C.2
Estimates of 2002 Subsidized Housing Participation
Probit – Utilization
Women
Men
Intercept –0.71826** –1.10238**
Education level
Less than high school
graduate
–0.29584 –0.10450
Some college –0.32825 –0.57558
Bachelor’s degree or more –1.05488* –0.78941
Age
Age –0.04159** –0.03829**
Age squared 0.00036** 0.00035**
Age–less than high school
graduate
0.02794** 0.01852
Age–some college 0.00686 0.02045
Age–bachelor’s degree or
more
Age squared–less than
high school graduate
0.02016 0.02895
–0.00024* –0.00018
Age squared–some college –0.00003 –0.00021
Age squared–bachelor’s
degree or more
–0.00016 –0.00041
Race/ethnicity
Asian 0.30835** 0.37206**
Black 0.80593** 0.58252**
Hispanic 0.33974** 0.36652**
Native American 0.47491** 0.66658**
Immigrant –0.00510 0.13814*
N 21,548 18,746
R squared 11% 9%
NOTES: One and two asterisks indicate significance at the
0.05 and 0.01 levels, respectively. Education effects (main
and interacted) are jointly significant at the 0.0001 level. The
intercept is high school graduate, white, U.S.-born.