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Measuring the Effect of Education on White Americans’ Racial
Attitudes
By Kyle E. Taylor*
Access to education, particularly higher education, has been labeled a causal
factor in determining white Americans’ racial attitudes, although some scholars
disagree as to the direction of the effect. While many in sociology consider it an
“iron law” that education begets tolerance (Schaefer, 1996), others argue that it
instead makes dominant groups more aware of their collective interests and
enables them to better defend their privileged position in social hierarchy (Wodtke,
2012). Using cross-sectional data from the 1992-1994 Multi-City Study of Urban
Inequality, I create a metric to gauge white Americans’ attitudes of minority
groups, using a variety of rigorous controls to establish causality. I find that
education has a statistically significant, but immeasurable effect compared to other
variables, particularly those controlling for the setting of the interview and other
unobservable traits. (JEL J15, A14, I26)
This paper seeks to extend previous scholars’ work on the source(s) of whites’ racial attitudes
and further complicate the role education plays in eliminating or sustaining prejudice. While the
majority of previous research has focused exclusively on white-black racial attitudes, this
analysis includes whites’ perceptions of Latinos and Asian-Americans in addition to African-
Americans. By creating innovative measures to control for individual unobserved traits, the
regression analyses presented in this paper more precisely estimate the effect of additional years
of schooling on the favorability with which white Americans view nonwhite Americans
compared to previous studies.
“Racial attitudes” often serves as a catch-all to describe various, and sometimes unrelated,
emotions and perceptions survey respondents hold. Depending on the measure used, researchers
have alternately demonstrated positive trends in whites’ acceptance of other races or shown
*
Department of Economics, Davidson College, Davidson, NC. Thanks to Dr. Mark Foley, Robby Kuster, Sam
Martin, Pablo Zevallos, and other students and faculty who gave me new ideas and inspired me to see the project to
its conclusion.
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whites to be no friendlier towards material racial equality than they ever have been.1
In my
analysis, “racial attitudes” will be defined narrowly along four equally-weighted categories:
perceptions of intelligence, laziness, amiability, and fairness. The purpose of this empirical
project is to establish a causal link between years of schooling and white survey respondents’
racial attitudes towards nonwhites.
I. Literature Review
National data collection on racial attitudes began in the late 1940’s and continued in earnest
through the Civil Rights Movement. Two reports motivated much of the early research: Gunnar
Myrdal’s An American Dilemma, published in 1944, and Hyman, Sheatsley, Greely, and
Taylor’s Scientific American reports, which began in 1956. Myrdal’s two-volume work cited
what he believed to be a fundamental hypocrisy in the “American Creed”: opportunity and social
mobility were only offered to a subset of the population; a black underclass was systematically
left out of the “creed” (Bobo et al., 2012). The Scientific American reports were more optimistic.
By the end of their second decade of research, scholars described a clear rise in integrationist and
pro-equality sentiment among a wide majority of Americans; educational attainment was
positively correlated with more favorable attitudes, while residence in the South and age were
negatively correlated with favorable attitudes towards blacks (Bobo et al., 2012).
1
Schuman, Steeh, and Bobo’s Racial Attitudes in America (1985) offers perhaps the most complete empirical
profile of the changing nature of racial attitudes, broadly defined, in recent history. The focus in this paper on
quantitative research is not intended to suggest that qualitative research in this field is of secondary importance or
provides less meaningful analysis. Eduardo Bonilla-Silva (2014) tackles the challenges of contemporary racism in
Racism Without Racists.
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When Howard Schuman, Charlotte Steeh, and Lawrence Bobo published Racial Attitudes in
America in the mid-1980’s, they did so at an inflection point in American racial relations.2
Brown v. Board of Education and the Civil Rights Movement were fading from white
Americans’ collective memory; the new battles were being fought over school busing,
affirmative action, and housing discrimination. Many of the perceived gains from the Civil
Rights Movement were being reversed, and scholars and activists increasingly wondered whether
the attitude shifts seen in previous decades were meaningful changes or socially-pressured
survey responses which had little bearing on the material facts of everyday life.
To understand how and why racial attitudes in America had first shifted towards equality and
then away from it, Schuman and his colleagues combined survey data from the General Social
Surveys, Institute for Social Research, and Gallup. They divided up survey questions into four
categories: questions asking about respondents’ principled views on equality/integration; those
asking about respondents’ support for interventionist policies to increase racial equality; and
those asking about respondents’ comfort living in mixed-race neighborhoods and attending
mixed-race schools. Respectively, they labeled these categories principle, implementation, and
social distance; a fourth category was created for miscellaneous question items (Schuman et al.,
1985). Although Schuman and his colleagues found consistent positive trends in whites’ racial
attitudes on questions of principle across surveys and over time, their research did not establish a
positive trend in whites’ support for questions of implementation, controlling for education.
While the most-educated respondents tended to be on the leading edge of some survey responses,
they only did so on questions on principle or when asked about their feelings towards one or two
2
Other research published at this time includes Apostle et al.’s (1983) work, The Anatomy of Racial Attitudes. His
research team developed the Bay Area Survey, which was focused on identifying the sources of whites’ explanations
for racial inequality.
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black families moving into their neighborhood. When the questions were related to
implementation or involved a larger proportion of black Americans, educated whites’ responses
converged towards the mean.
The gap between support for equality in principle vs. equality in practice among the most
educated quarters of white America has spawned two leading theories about the role education
plays in shaping racial attitudes. Those in favor of the enlightenment theory of education see it as
a liberalizing and democracy-reinforcing source of knowledge about the world and the historical,
social, and economic factors responsible for shaping it.3
Proponents of enlightenment theory cite
a wealth of survey data which suggests that more educated respondents are more likely to
recognize gender inequities, less likely to hold anti-Semitic views, and more likely to be aware
of environmental degradation, among other issues (Schaefer, 1996). Fundamentally, they argue
that additional years of education increase young people’s commitment to the democratic values
of tolerance and acceptance. Some empirical evidence supports this view: highly educated whites
are more likely to reject racist stereotypes and endorse egalitarian principles than less educated
whites (Schuman et al., 1985; Taylor & Mateyka, 2011; Wodtke, 2012).
Other scholars have taken a more critical view of the response data around questions of
implementation. Jackman (1984) argues provocatively that higher education, rather than
increasing commitment to democratic values, instead cements latent white supremacist
ideologies and allows whites to refine self-interested values, rather than challenge them. This
theoretical perspective, termed ideological refinement, “views education not as enlightening but
rather as an institution that endows dominant groups with a keen awareness of their group
3
See Wodtke (2012), Jackman & Muha (1984), and Schaefer (1996) for more in-depth discussion of the principle
assumptions undergirding the Enlightenment Theory. Wodtke (2014) and Jackman & Muha (1984) compare these
theoretical assumptions to those made by proponents of ideological refinement theory.
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interests, more advanced cognitive skills, and a set of ideological commitments that enable them
to articulate an astute defense of their privileged position in the social hierarchy” (Wodtke,
2014). Even accepting that college campuses can instill democratic principles in their students,
democratic commitments to individualism and meritocracy may overwhelm more progressive
views on racial integration, especially when racial equality comes to mean equality of outcome at
the expense of equality of opportunity (Shaefer, 1996). Empirical evidence supports this
perspective as well: Bobo and Kluegel (1993) find that white Americans regardless of
educational background are more in favor of redistributive policies which favor the poor than
identically-designed policies which favor minorities, controlling for a variety of demographic
and character-based traits.
Wodtke (2012) and Jackman & Muha (1984) provide two of the most clearly contrasting and
empirically-grounded analyses of the role education plays in shaping racial attitudes. Jackman’s
work focuses broadly on the racial attitudes held by individuals who are members of a dominant
social class (whites, men, and the wealthy). Using 1974 in-person survey data from the Survey
Research Center of the University of Michigan, Jackman and Muha regress white respondents’
attitudes on education, controlling for age, region, and class background; 46 questions, most on a
9-point scale (with positive values suggesting more favorable attitudes), were split equally
between those on race, gender, and class (Jackman & Muha, 1984). All variables were
constructed as splines, with education broken down in component parts of less than high school,
some high school, full high school, some college, bachelor’s, and master’s degree. If education
were to instill egalitarian principles in people, than those should be more clearly expressed as
individuals stay in school longer and result in measurable and statistically significant responses
from research subjects.
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However, Jackman and Muha (1984) find that increasing education positively affects only
one-fourth of the questions and negatively affects just as many. When controls were introduced,
the coefficients on education categories decrease measurably, and “a clear positive relationship
with education emerges as the exception rather than the rule [across all categories]” (Jackman &
Muha, 1984).
Notably, most of the positive coefficients are found on questions relating to race, which
suggests they may have overstated their claim. In fact, college graduation accounts for half or
more of a standard-deviation improvement in views towards integration, racial intelligence,
perceived laziness, and general feeling of warmth towards nonwhites compared to the omitted
category – less than a high school education (Jackman & Muha, 1984). Particularly, movement
up each additional education bracket measurably improves whites’ perceptions of nonwhites’
dependability and intelligence. Their survey design also has two other flaws: the dummy variable
for age includes only two brackets (younger or older than 34), and they ask respondents to self-
report class status, a procedure which has been widely documented to result in individuals over-
stating their class and increases the possibility of measurement error in the control variables.
Taken together, these arguments suggest that Jackman and Muha’s argument for ideological
refinement (1984) might be based more on respondents’ answers to questions about gender and
class disparities than on those related to racial attitudes.
Wodtke (2012) agrees with Jackman and Muha’s (1984) broad claim that increasing
education does not affect whites’ racial attitudes, but instead posits what he calls a “revised
group interest perspective” based on his empirical analysis. Using data from the General Social
Surveys and Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality, Wodtke compares responses on identical
questions using a logistic regression of negative stereotypes, perceptions of discrimination, and
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policy preferences on educational attainment (again constructed as a spline). He collapses
whites’ responses from a 7-point scale to a binary scale, with all responses greater than or equal
to 5 assigned a “1”. He controls for political ideology (also on a 7-point scale), gender, age,
native status, parents’ education, income, city, race of the interviewer, and survey year (Wodtke,
2012). This broad set of controls yields more precise estimates than Jackman and Muha (1984)
because it takes into account familial background, the role of the local community, and the
setting of the interview, mitigating concerns of omitted variable bias if any of those traits is
correlated with an individual’s perception of other races. For the regression of whites’
perceptions of other races’ intelligence/work ethic, all coefficients are measurable, statistically
significant, and in the expected direction in both the GSS data and MCSUI (Wodtke, 2012).
Wodtke (2012) does note, however, that increasing education is not positively related to whites’
support for redistributive policies – only those perceived to be opportunity-enhancing. Based on
these mixed findings, he suggests that advanced education serves to marginalize ideas that are
challenging to dominant structures, even if it does also bring some liberalizing values as well.
These data suggest that the implementation-principle gap Schuman identified in the mid-
1980’s persists to the present day. They also point to the pitfall of omitted variable bias in
regression analysis; the interview setting and unobserved personal values may play a larger role
in determining survey respondents’ answers than an individual’s “true” opinions. Any analysis
which does not attempt to control for these unobserved values cannot reliably estimate the role of
education in shaping attitudes, particularly if an individual develops specific values
independently of their schooling (for example, in their families or at the workplace). My model
aims to confront the omitted variable bias problem and control for the setting of the interview to
reliably estimate the role of education in shaping racial attitudes.
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NOTE: a score of 16 indicates neither positive nor negative
favorability; scores below 16 are more favorable.
Table 1: Descriptive Statistics Table 2: Racial Attitudes Statistics
II. Data and Descriptive Statistics
Researchers administering the Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality conducted over 8000
interviews with residents of four cities in the period from 1992-1994.4
The questions they asked
about racial attitudes mirrored exactly those in the General Social Survey; the primary difference
between the two studies is that the GSS aims to provide a representative snapshot of America on
a biannual basis, while the MCSUI aimed more narrowly to capture the lives of Americans,
particularly nonwhite, low-income Americans, in four specific communities. The four cities they
chose – Atlanta, Boston, Detroit, and Los Angeles – had all in recent history been in the national
spotlight as a hotbed of racial unrest (Rodney King in Los Angeles being the most recent
example at that time). Their local emphasis allows for more contextual interpretations of survey
responses, while still making comparisons between GSS responses a worthwhile undertaking.
4
Although the data was collected over the span of three years, data are cross-sectional, not longitudinal.
TARGET
GROUP
RACE
RESPONDENT’S RACE
White Black Latino Asian
White 12.728
(3.353)
15.634
(3.879)
14.252
(4.041)
14.275
(3.230)
Black 16.251
(3.685)
14.628
(3.696)
17.799
(4.020)
18.114
(3.037)
Latino 16.018
(3.722)
16.340
(3.774)
14.731
(3.808)
17.298
(2.788)
Asian 13.448
(3.363)
15.703
(3.509)
14.723
(3.539)
11.678
(2.981)
Variable Mean Std. Dev.
Years of Education 14.229 2.551
Log(Politics) 1.291 0.455
Log(Income) 10.969 0.928
Age 43.192 15.244
Male 0.478 0.499
Log(Own Race
Attitudes)
2.502 0.301
Black Bias 0.005 0.759
Latino Bias 0.003 0.054
Asian Bias 0.015 0.123
Egalitarian Values 0.156 0.363
White Interviewer 0.741 0.438
Black Interviewer 0.083 0.276
Latino Interviewer 0.040 0.197
Asian Interviewer 0.134 0.341
Boston 0.294 0.455
Atlanta 0.244 0.429
Los Angeles 0.461 0.498
Observations 1379
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In order to construct a single measure of “racial attitudes”, I took data from four survey
questions and added respondents’ answers in those four categories (intelligence, working ethic,
friendliness, and fairness). The survey questions asked respondents to what extent they believed
members of races on average shared particular traits; a response of 1 indicated a positive position
(“blacks are very intelligent”; “Latinos are very easy to get along with”), while a response of “7”
indicated a negative position (“Asians strongly prefer welfare”; “whites treat others very
unequally”). A score of “4” suggested that the particular race was “neither (positive trait) nor
(negative trait)”.
The result is a 24-point favorability index, with the lowest values indicating the greatest
favorability on average; a score of 16 indicates neither a favorable nor unfavorable view of a
particular group. Unlike other researchers who had run regressions on a question-by-question
basis, I chose to create this favorability rating metric because I think it captures more holistically
how individuals perceive members of other races, a valuable insight, I argue, because individuals
do not interact in the narrow categories defined by the GSS and MCSUI. Table 2 summarizes all
survey respondents’ answers to these questions about their own race and other races. Reading the
table horizontally compares how favorably one race is viewed by other races; reading the table
vertically compares how members of one race view other races on average. What is particularly
clear is not that respondents view other races unfavorably in an absolute sense – only that they
view other races less favorably than they view their own. White, black, and Asian respondents
demonstrate a consistent and statistically significant preference for their own race, while Latinos
are the only group who, on average, do not express a statistically significant difference between
how favorably they view their own race in comparison to any other race. Asians’ and Latinos’
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ratings towards blacks are the most unfavorable scores, while whites’ rating of Asians represents
the most favorable score given to any race that is not the respondent’s own.
To narrow the focus on my analysis, I constricted my data set to white respondents who
answered each of the four questions about all races without skipping or indicating that they “did
not know/hadn’t thought about” an answer.5
This left just over 1350 respondents for my
regression analysis. The average age of these respondents was 43 years old, and just over half
were women. Adjusting for inflation, respondents’ average income was $57,500, and the average
political view was a 3.98 out of 7, evenly split between liberal (1-3) and conservative (5-7).
Educational attainment, expressed as the total number of completed years of schooling, is fairly
high among this group; the average respondent completed at least some college. On the whole,
these summary statistics suggest that respondents were somewhat more liberal than average
white voter during this time and better educated. Given these trends, we might expect these
respondents to have more favorable views of minorities than a representative survey of white
Americans.
III. Econometric Model & Results
I hypothesize a non-linear, negative (read: favorable – this is due to the nature of the
somewhat counter-intuitive favorability index) effect of education on whites’ racial attitudes
towards minorities, with the marginal influence of education increasing as whites continue
through school. I begin by positing the following base model to represent white racial attitudes,
using controls which follow previous scholars’ work:
5
Tossing out “don’t knows” as well as any skipped/missed answers fully eliminated Detroit (respondents were not
asked about Latinos or Asian-Americans). Bobo et al. (2012) argue that the rise in the number of “don’t know”
responses merits further analysis.
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𝐹𝑎𝑣𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑏𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦 = −𝛽1 𝐸𝑑𝑢𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 + 𝛽2 𝐴𝑔𝑒 + 𝛽3 𝐼𝑛𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒 + 𝛽4 𝑃𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑠 − 𝛽5 𝐴𝑡𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑎 −
𝛽6 𝐵𝑜𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑛 − 𝛽7 𝐵𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑘𝐼𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤𝑒𝑟 − 𝛽8 𝐿𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑜𝐼𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤𝑒𝑟 − 𝛽9 𝐴𝑠𝑖𝑎𝑛𝐼𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑤𝑒𝑟 + 𝜀6
Again, because more favorable ratings are lower on the scale, I expect education to be
negatively related with whites’ favorability towards minorities. Similarly, I expect whites
interviewed by nonwhites to give more favorable answers about all nonwhite groups than they
would if they had a white interviewer. Because Los Angeles experienced the most recent racial
unrest, I excluded it from the analysis, assuming that respondents in Atlanta and Boston would
be more favorable towards minorities than would those in Los Angeles. High-income and
conservative politics I also assume will predict less favorable views. If education has a non-
linear effect on racial attitudes following enlightenment theory, we might predict:
𝐹𝑎𝑣𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑏𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦 = −𝛽1 𝐸𝑑𝑢𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 − 𝛽2 𝐸𝑑𝑢𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛2
+ (𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑙𝑠) + 𝜀
where the marginal effect of an additional year of education increases whites’ favorability of
nonwhites at an increasing rate.
Both the linear and nonlinear OLS models suffer from endogeneity problems as a result of
omitted variable bias. White respondents may feel pressure to provide socially acceptable
responses to their interviewers, or, alternately, may be compelled by unobserved values or
principles to view all races equally. Finally, it is possible that respondents have prejudices
towards certain races which may influence their response. If these social pressures, values, and
prejudices are positively correlated with indicating favorability in a survey response, then the
base model will overestimate the role of education in explaining the variance in racial attitudes.
6
In the regression, covariates include: eeduyrs = years of schooling; ln_inc is the log of income; ln_pol is the log of
political ideology; (race)_intv is the race of the interviewer; ln_wav is the log of whites’ favorability of their own
race. Other covariates are self-explanatory.
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I construct two control variables which are meant to represent unobserved social pressures,
values, and prejudices. The first control is egal_values, a dummy variable indicating if the
respondent gave the same numerical score to all races on one of the four categories. This control
has the benefit of capturing both the social pressures a respondent might feel to give the
perception of being egalitarian-minded as well as the very real value/moral imperative a
respondent might feel to rate all respondents equally.7
11% of white respondents express this
behavior. The second control is a set of bias dummy variables indicating if the respondent gave
the same score to all members of a specific race on all questions – a hypothesized indicator of
systemic prejudice. Very few whites expressed this behavior. A priori, I hypothesize the
following relationship between these controls and the dependent variable:
𝐹𝑎𝑣𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑏𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦 = −𝛽1 𝐸𝑔𝑎𝑙_𝑉𝑎𝑙𝑢𝑒𝑠 + 𝛽2 𝐵𝑖𝑎𝑠 + 𝜀
The final control included is the respondent’s log(favorability) score of their own race. This
coefficient on this variable specifies the elasticity between whites’ attitudes towards themselves
and their attitude of others. Because it is possible that respondents were systematically biased on
the day of their interview to give more positive or more negative ratings due to unobserved
factors (being in a bad mood, being apathetic to the survey, etc.), this control is included as well.
OLS regression results presented in Tables 3-5 summarize the effects of additional years of
education on racial attitudes toward nonwhite groups. Column (1) in each table specifies the base
model, and each column moving to the right introduces a new non-linear effect or “value
control”. The log-linear models fit the data just as well as the linear models, and the quadratic
terms for the regression on whites’ attitudes towards blacks and whites’ attitudes towards Latinos
are statistically significant and pass the Ramsey RESET test. The log-linear model also has the
7
Specifically, this dummy variable would be assigned to respondents who believed, for example, that all races were
equally intelligent, even if they didn’t believe that all were equally hard-working or friendly.
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benefit of providing a more easily interpretable result (“an additional year of schooling shifts
racial attitudes by _X%_, on average, ceretis paribus”). In all regressions, the value controls
dramatically improve the fit of the data and change the sign of the quadratic term from negative
to positive, and the quadratic term remains statistically significant. Interaction terms were tested
in column (5) to see if political views or class have counter-veiling effects on education. Each of
the three sets of regressions will be analyzed in greater detail for the significance of specific
control terms in addition to the variable of interest.
A. WHITE RACIAL ATTITUDES TOWARDS BLACKS
The base model in column (1) confirms my hypothesis in sign but not magnitude. An
additional year of education increases whites’ favorability towards blacks by 0.1 points on the
24-point favorability scale, roughly 5% of a standard deviation. None of the coefficients on age,
sex, income, or city are statistically different than zero. However, the interviewer effects are very
strong in column (1) and throughout the regression, particularly when the interviewer is black.
Looking at column (3), holding constant all other variables, having a black interviewer instead of
a white interviewer improves whites’ stated favorability by 18.6 percentage points – three-
quarters of a standard deviation. Interviewer effects are also statistically significant when the
interviewer is Latino, but are not statistically different between Asian and white interviewers.
Respondents who display egalitarian values are 30.6 percentage points more favorable towards
blacks in the same regression. Meanwhile, an additional year of education at the mean of all
other variables increases by a pedestrian 0.9 percentage points. The interaction terms in column
(5) are also not statistically different from zero.
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Table 3: White Racial Attitudes Towards Black Americans
(1) (2) (3) (4)
VARIABLES Favorability Log(favorability) Log(favorability) Log(favorability)
eeduyrs -0.182*** -0.00422 -0.0143 -0.00704
(0.0406) (0.0173) (0.0128) (0.0227)
eeduyrs2 -0.000237 0.000170 0.000321
(0.000609) (0.000449) (0.000489)
ln_pol 1.201*** 0.0847*** 0.0564*** 0.0151
(0.231) (0.0166) (0.0128) (0.0670)
ln_inc 0.00503 0.000801 0.00251 0.0217
(0.114) (0.00779) (0.00625) (0.0308)
age 0.00631 0.000326 0.000631* 0.000642*
(0.00631) (0.000415) (0.000368) (0.000368)
male 0.139 0.0104 0.00834 0.00796
(0.192) (0.0130) (0.0106) (0.0106)
atlanta -0.333 -0.0315* -0.00154 -0.00193
(0.265) (0.0187) (0.0149) (0.0149)
boston -0.360 -0.0222 -0.00367 -0.00351
(0.240) (0.0165) (0.0132) (0.0133)
black_intv -3.028*** -0.215*** -0.186*** -0.185***
(0.357) (0.0295) (0.0215) (0.0215)
latino_intv -1.031** -0.0629* -0.0575** -0.0579**
(0.475) (0.0324) (0.0247) (0.0247)
asian_intv 0.725** 0.0459** 0.0206 0.0199
(0.297) (0.0187) (0.0162) (0.0163)
egal_values -0.302*** -0.303***
(0.0176) (0.0176)
black_bias -0.360*** -0.361***
(0.124) (0.123)
ln_wav 0.162*** 0.162***
(0.0234) (0.0234)
eduxpol 0.00285
(0.00440)
eduxinc -0.00137
(0.00210)
Constant 17.28*** 2.760*** 2.456*** 2.325***
(1.285) (0.146) (0.127) (0.336)
Observations 1,379 1,379 1,379 1,379
R-squared 0.108 0.110 0.409 0.409
Nonlinear Effects NO YES YES YES
Value Controls NO NO YES YES
Interactions NO NO NO YES
Adj. R2 0.101 0.103 0.403 0.402
SER 3.494 0.238 0.194 0.194
Robust standard errors in parentheses
*** p<0.01, ** p<0.05, * p<0.1
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B. WHITE RACIAL ATTITUDES TOWARDS ASIANS
The regression of whites’ racial attitudes towards Asian-Americans yields a very different
result, although one that is similarly pessimistic about the role education plays in implanting
favorable values towards minorities. Some of the controls which were insignificant in the
regression involving whites’ attitudes towards blacks are consistently significant here,
particularly the city and age variables. I hypothesize that this is due to the higher prevalence of
Asian-Americans living on the west coast, where they are more likely to be neighbors and co-
workers of the survey respondents. Similarly, aging ten years 0.7 percentage points less
favorable toward Asian-Americans, a trend likely due to older whites’ memories of WWII and
the Vietnam War. Additional years of schooling, meanwhile, do not display a nonlinear
relationship with favorability, and only account for a 0.7 percentage point increase in favorability
at the mean of the control variables using the regression in column (3). Again, the interaction
terms are not statistically significant.
C. WHITE RACIAL ATTITUDES TOWARDS LATINOS
The coefficients on education in the regression on white attitudes toward Latino-Americans
appears similar to that in the regression on attitudes towards black Americans, although
additional years of education have a slightly more positive effect. Using the regression in column
(3), an additional year of education increases whites’ favorability by 1.3 percentage points at the
means of the other variables. Again, some covariates which were insignificant in the regression
on black attitudes are significant here: sex and city. Women are less favorable towards Latinos
than men, and Bostonians are more favorable than those in any other city.
Table 4: White Racial Attitudes Toward Asian Americans
(1) (2) (3) (4)
VARIABLES Favorability Log(favorability) Log(favorability) Log(favorability)
eeduyrs -0.0892** -0.00311 -0.0146 -0.0462*
(0.0366) (0.0172) (0.0162) (0.0254)
eeduyrs2 -9.98e-05 0.000248 -0.000350
(0.000612) (0.000563) (0.000677)
ln_pol 0.176 0.00947 -0.00211 0.144*
(0.209) (0.0172) (0.0147) (0.0779)
ln_inc -0.153 -0.0111 -0.00860 -0.0864**
(0.106) (0.00888) (0.00726) (0.0372)
age -0.000942 -2.00e-05 0.000814** 0.000771*
(0.00583) (0.000472) (0.000404) (0.000402)
male -0.0907 -0.00312 -0.0163 -0.0150
(0.178) (0.0148) (0.0118) (0.0118)
atlanta -0.181 -0.0184 0.0176 0.0192
(0.241) (0.0202) (0.0160) (0.0160)
boston 1.052*** 0.0751*** 0.0760*** 0.0755***
(0.228) (0.0186) (0.0152) (0.0151)
black_intv 1.220*** 0.0884*** 0.0988*** 0.0975***
(0.345) (0.0282) (0.0226) (0.0228)
latino_intv -0.142 -0.0109 -0.0224 -0.0210
(0.470) (0.0391) (0.0317) (0.0319)
asian_intv -0.122 -0.0105 -0.0580*** -0.0553***
(0.282) (0.0240) (0.0196) (0.0195)
egal_values -0.197*** -0.196***
(0.0197) (0.0197)
asian_bias -0.327*** -0.333***
(0.0831) (0.0821)
ln_wav 0.389*** 0.387***
(0.0283) (0.0284)
eduxpol -0.0101*
(0.00518)
eduxinc 0.00554**
(0.00258)
Constant 15.91*** 2.717*** 1.825*** 2.384***
(1.143) (0.148) (0.147) (0.363)
Observations 1,379 1,379 1,379 1,379
R-squared 0.043 0.033 0.366 0.370
Nonlinear Effects NO YES YES YES
Value Controls NO NO YES YES
Interactions NO NO NO YES
Adj. R2 0.0364 0.0254 0.359 0.362
SER 3.302 0.273 0.221 0.221
Robust standard errors in parentheses
*** p<0.01, ** p<0.05, * p<0.1
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Table 5: White Racial Attitudes Towards Latino Americans
(1) (2) (3) (4)
VARIABLES Favorability Log(favorability) Log(favorability) Log(favorability)
eeduyrs -0.231*** -0.00195 -0.0142 -0.0282
(0.0405) (0.0162) (0.0138) (0.0260)
eeduyrs2 -0.000422 4.82e-05 2.47e-05
(0.000579) (0.000489) (0.000506)
ln_pol 0.981*** 0.0698*** 0.0322** -0.0553
(0.240) (0.0177) (0.0133) (0.0676)
ln_inc -0.0309 -0.000361 0.000438 -0.00900
(0.114) (0.00777) (0.00632) (0.0335)
age 0.000108 4.61e-05 0.000335 0.000341
(0.00649) (0.000422) (0.000361) (0.000361)
male -0.588*** -0.0370*** -0.0409*** -0.0413***
(0.196) (0.0135) (0.0108) (0.0108)
atlanta -0.865*** -0.0588*** -0.0277* -0.0276*
(0.266) (0.0192) (0.0152) (0.0152)
boston 0.456* 0.0295* 0.0431*** 0.0433***
(0.257) (0.0173) (0.0138) (0.0138)
black_intv -0.964** -0.0697** -0.0354 -0.0353
(0.385) (0.0290) (0.0221) (0.0220)
latino_intv -1.755*** -0.112*** -0.111*** -0.112***
(0.510) (0.0355) (0.0295) (0.0296)
asian_intv 0.0741 0.0128 -0.00952 -0.00951
(0.292) (0.0191) (0.0166) (0.0167)
egal_values -0.320*** -0.320***
(0.0178) (0.0178)
latino_bias -0.864*** -0.866***
(0.0827) (0.0840)
ln_wav 0.117*** 0.117***
(0.0229) (0.0229)
eduxpol 0.00604
(0.00453)
eduxinc 0.000680
(0.00234)
Constant 18.87*** 2.804*** 2.656*** 2.860***
(1.302) (0.142) (0.132) (0.368)
Observations 1,379 1,379 1,379 1,379
R-squared 0.080 0.074 0.391 0.392
Nonlinear Effects NO YES YES YES
Value Controls NO NO YES YES
Interactions NO NO NO YES
Adj. R2 0.0729 0.0667 0.384 0.384
SER 3.584 0.244 0.198 0.198
Robust standard errors in parentheses
*** p<0.01, ** p<0.05, * p<0.1
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D. ASSESSMENT OF VALIDITY & CAUSALITY
Interviewer effects and egalitarian behavior are the strongest and most statistically significant
predictors of whites’ racial attitudes in these regressions. However, it is important to understand
whether egalitarian views in particular are collinear with education or endogenous to racial
attitudes. If, for example, additional years of schooling increases the likelihood that an individual
displays egalitarian values, then including that term in the regression will dampen the effect of
education and make it appear to be less meaningful in determining attitudes than it in fact is. I
tested this hypothesis using probit and logit regressions on both years of schooling and whether
the respondent had a bachelor’s degree, controlling for the same factors included in all other
regressions. Holding a bachelor’s degree increases the likelihood that an individual will display
egalitarian values by 4.5 percentage points in the probit regression, while an additional year of
school increases the likelihood of exhibiting this behavior by 0.5 percentage points on average in
a similar probit regression. Thus, I conclude that exhibiting egalitarian values in the interview
setting is not co-determined by educational background.
Other sources of endogeneity might stem from sample selection bias. If individuals with
moderate views are the ones most likely to indicate that they “do not know/haven’t thought about
it”, then excluding them from the regression might understate the role of education in increasing
white respondents’ favorability towards minorities. However, given the magnitude of the
coefficient on the variable-of-interest, is likely that even finding a way to coax responses out of
moderate or apathetic individuals would have little effect on the regression results.
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Table 6: White Racial Attitudes Self-Revelation Models
African-Amer. Latino Asian-Amer.
VARIABLES Log(favorability) Log(favorability) Log(favorability)
eeduyrs -0.0179 -0.0162 -0.00915***
(0.0124) (0.0137) (0.00239)
eeduyrs2 0.000309 0.000118
(0.000437) (0.000484)
ln_pol 0.0592*** 0.0334** -0.00537
(0.0124) (0.0131) (0.0143)
black_intv -0.185*** -0.0354 0.104***
(0.0208) (0.0217) (0.0224)
latino_intv -0.0565** -0.111*** -0.0179
(0.0239) (0.0289) (0.0314)
asian_intv 0.0244* -0.00915 -0.0589***
(0.0146) (0.0166) (0.0195)
egal_values -0.304*** -0.321*** -0.197***
(0.0176) (0.0178) (0.0197)
ln_wav 0.158*** 0.115*** 0.389***
(0.0235) (0.0229) (0.0284)
male -0.0415***
(0.0108)
atlanta -0.0288* 0.0175
(0.0151) (0.0160)
boston 0.0424*** 0.0787***
(0.0138) (0.0151)
latino_bias -0.862***
(0.0831)
black_bias -0.361***
(0.123)
age 0.000873**
(0.000400)
asian_bias -0.321***
(0.0839)
Constant 2.542*** 2.695*** 1.698***
(0.106) (0.110) (0.0880)
Observations 1,379 1,379 1,379
R-squared 0.407 0.390 0.364
Adj. R2 0.403 0.385 0.359
SER 0.194 0.198 0.221
Robust standard errors in parentheses
*** p<0.01, ** p<0.05, * p<0.1
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E. SELF-REVELATION MODEL
After assessing all regression models for their internal and external validity and the
significance of their coefficients, I constructed the self-revelation models displayed in Table 6.
Most notably, the “best” model is the one predicting whites’ favorability towards blacks, with
views towards Asian-Americans being the least accurately predicted. I hypothesize that this is
the case because the social pressures and stigma associated with indicating negative views of
blacks are more salient than those related to Latinos or Asians, particularly in the early 90’s. The
coefficient on black_intv in the regression analyzing attitudes towards blacks is larger and more
significant than any other interviewer coefficient in any other regression. Moving from equation
(1) to (3), the average marginal effect of an additional year of education is -1.1 percentage
points, -1.6 percentage points, and -1.1 percentage points.
IV. Discussion
Including rigorous controls diminishes the effect of education on racial attitudes towards all
minority groups and changes the sign of the quadratic term in the regression from negative to
positive. This finding contradicts my null hypothesis, but confirms Schuman et al. (1983) and
Wodtke’s (2012) studies, as both found that more educated white Americans were more likely to
express favorable views of minorities on certain questions, but that the effect diminishes past a
certain point. In general, my results provide good reason to be skeptical about the role of
education in creating more tolerant individuals, particularly given that the effect of additional
years of schooling on racial attitudes decreases with more education. Importantly, because my
coefficients are significant, and, over the very long term, measurably effect racial attitudes
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towards minorities, I reject Jackman and Muha’s (1984) claim that the most educated members
of society are those with the most hostile racial attitudes.
Collecting survey data to measure racial attitudes could in itself be a significant barrier to
understanding the state of racial relations in America. Because of the profound role interviewer
effects play in mediating survey answers, people may simply respond to the social cues of the
situation, rather than spend time in thought reflecting on where their “true” values lie. Because
the GSS and MCSUI both use interviews to conduct their research, it is imperative that empirical
analysis control for race-of-interviewer effects. Moreover, because many of the reasons why
survey-takers respond to racially-loaded questions in ways that are unobservable and value-
driven, researchers need to continue to search for more and more rigorous ways to control for
them. More than providing reason for skepticism about the role of education in shaping racial
attitudes, my results suggest reason for being skeptical of the data itself.
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APPENDIX A
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APPENDIX B
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name: <unnamed>
log: Z:MetricsProjectDatapaperdata.txt
log type: text
opened on: 16 Dec 2015, 17:17:57
. use projectdata.dta;
. sum eeduyrs politics age male female white_intv black_intv latino_intv asian_
> intv boston atlanta los_angeles if white==1;
Variable | Obs Mean Std. Dev. Min Max
-------------+---------------------------------------------------------
eeduyrs | 1,379 14.22915 2.551301 2 20
politics | 1,379 3.978245 1.500205 1 7
age | 1,379 43.19217 15.24469 21 87
male | 1,379 .4786077 .4997234 0 1
female | 1,379 .5213923 .4997234 0 1
-------------+---------------------------------------------------------
white_intv | 1,379 .7411168 .4381803 0 1
black_intv | 1,379 .0833938 .2765768 0 1
latino_intv | 1,379 .0406091 .1974546 0 1
asian_intv | 1,379 .1348803 .3417196 0 1
boston | 1,379 .2944162 .4559452 0 1
-------------+---------------------------------------------------------
atlanta | 1,379 .24438 .4298749 0 1
los_angeles | 1,379 .4612038 .4986734 0 1
. sum amval_blk amval_lat amval_asn ln_bav ln_lav ln_aav if white==1;
Variable | Obs Mean Std. Dev. Min Max
-------------+---------------------------------------------------------
amval_blk | 1,379 16.25163 3.68574 4 28
amval_lat | 1,379 16.01813 3.722655 4 28
amval_asn | 1,379 13.44888 3.363462 4 28
ln_bav | 1,379 2.759229 .2511846 1.386294 3.332205
ln_lav | 1,379 2.744045 .252926 1.386294 3.332205
-------------+---------------------------------------------------------
ln_aav | 1,379 2.563804 .2761204 1.386294 3.332205
. sum amval_wht amval_blk amval_lat amval_asn if white==1;
Variable | Obs Mean Std. Dev. Min Max
-------------+---------------------------------------------------------
amval_wht | 1,379 12.72806 3.353077 4 23
amval_blk | 1,379 16.25163 3.68574 4 28
amval_lat | 1,379 16.01813 3.722655 4 28
amval_asn | 1,379 13.44888 3.363462 4 28
. /* White's Views of Black Americans */
> reg amval_blk eeduyrs ln_pol ln_inc age male atlanta boston black_intv latino_
> intv asian_intv if white==1, r ;
Linear regression Number of obs = 1,379
F(10, 1368) = 16.25
Prob > F = 0.0000
R-squared = 0.1077
Root MSE = 3.4943
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Robust
amval_blk | Coef. Std. Err. t P>|t| [95% Conf. Interval]
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-------------+----------------------------------------------------------------
eeduyrs | -.1818185 .0405902 -4.48 0.000 -.2614444 -.1021927
ln_pol | 1.200639 .2312285 5.19 0.000 .7470384 1.65424
ln_inc | .005025 .1137331 0.04 0.965 -.2180851 .2281351
age | .0063129 .0063134 1.00 0.318 -.006072 .0186978
male | .1388122 .1920538 0.72 0.470 -.2379397 .5155642
atlanta | -.3329273 .2654091 -1.25 0.210 -.8535803 .1877257
boston | -.3599119 .2403645 -1.50 0.135 -.8314348 .111611
black_intv | -3.027721 .3572244 -8.48 0.000 -3.728488 -2.326955
latino_intv | -1.031129 .4753075 -2.17 0.030 -1.963539 -.0987179
asian_intv | .7249081 .2970908 2.44 0.015 .1421052 1.307711
_cons | 17.27794 1.284931 13.45 0.000 14.75729 19.79859
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
. outreg2 using paperdataBLK2.doc, word replace title("White's Racial Attitudes
> Toward Black Americans") addstat(Adj. R2, e(r2_a), SER, e(rmse)) addtext(Nonli
> near Effects, NO, Value Controls, NO, Interactions, NO);
paperdataBLK2.doc
dir : seeout
. reg ln_bav eeduyrs eeduyrs2 ln_pol ln_inc age male boston atlanta black_intv
> latino_intv asian_intv if white==1, r;
Linear regression Number of obs = 1,379
F(11, 1367) = 11.96
Prob > F = 0.0000
R-squared = 0.1102
Root MSE = .23789
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Robust
ln_bav | Coef. Std. Err. t P>|t| [95% Conf. Interval]
-------------+----------------------------------------------------------------
eeduyrs | -.0042171 .0172933 -0.24 0.807 -.0381415 .0297073
eeduyrs2 | -.000237 .0006094 -0.39 0.697 -.0014324 .0009584
ln_pol | .084677 .0165602 5.11 0.000 .0521908 .1171632
ln_inc | .0008011 .0077869 0.10 0.918 -.0144745 .0160768
age | .0003256 .0004152 0.78 0.433 -.0004889 .0011401
male | .0104088 .0130284 0.80 0.424 -.0151491 .0359667
boston | -.0221674 .0165041 -1.34 0.179 -.0545436 .0102088
atlanta | -.0314948 .0186687 -1.69 0.092 -.0681173 .0051276
black_intv | -.2148713 .0295294 -7.28 0.000 -.2727991 -.1569434
latino_intv | -.0629175 .0324002 -1.94 0.052 -.1264769 .000642
asian_intv | .0458511 .0186599 2.46 0.014 .009246 .0824562
_cons | 2.760086 .1463391 18.86 0.000 2.473013 3.04716
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
. outreg2 using paperdataBLK2.doc, word append title("White's Racial Attitudes
> Toward Black Americans") addstat(Adj. R2, e(r2_a), SER, e(rmse)) addtext(Nonli
> near Effects, YES, Value Controls, NO, Interactions, NO);
paperdataBLK2.doc
dir : seeout
. reg ln_bav eeduyrs eeduyrs2 ln_pol ln_inc age male atlanta boston black_intv
> latino_intv asian_intv egal_values black_bias ln_wav if white==1, r ;
Linear regression Number of obs = 1,379
F(14, 1364) = 45.48
Prob > F = 0.0000
R-squared = 0.4088
Root MSE = .19413
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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| Robust
ln_bav | Coef. Std. Err. t P>|t| [95% Conf. Interval]
-------------+----------------------------------------------------------------
eeduyrs | -.0143118 .0127742 -1.12 0.263 -.039371 .0107473
eeduyrs2 | .0001701 .0004492 0.38 0.705 -.0007112 .0010514
ln_pol | .056362 .0128186 4.40 0.000 .0312157 .0815084
ln_inc | .0025089 .0062473 0.40 0.688 -.0097465 .0147643
age | .000631 .0003678 1.72 0.086 -.0000905 .0013526
male | .0083424 .0106351 0.78 0.433 -.0125204 .0292053
atlanta | -.0015381 .0148855 -0.10 0.918 -.0307391 .0276629
boston | -.0036657 .0132431 -0.28 0.782 -.0296447 .0223132
black_intv | -.1855004 .0214945 -8.63 0.000 -.2276662 -.1433346
latino_intv | -.0575345 .0247215 -2.33 0.020 -.1060308 -.0090381
asian_intv | .0205675 .0162205 1.27 0.205 -.0112523 .0523874
egal_values | -.3022918 .0175734 -17.20 0.000 -.3367657 -.267818
black_bias | -.3598369 .1244434 -2.89 0.004 -.6039581 -.1157158
ln_wav | .1620025 .0233843 6.93 0.000 .1161295 .2078755
_cons | 2.455997 .1271279 19.32 0.000 2.206609 2.705384
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
. outreg2 using paperdataBLK2.doc, word append title("White's Racial Attitudes T
> oward Black Americans") addstat(Adj. R2, e(r2_a), SER, e(rmse)) addtext(Nonlin
> ear Effects, YES, Value Controls, YES, Interactions, NO);
paperdataBLK2.doc
dir : seeout
. reg ln_bav eeduyrs eeduyrs2 ln_pol ln_inc age male atlanta boston black_intv
> latino_intv asian_intv egal_values black_bias ln_wav eduxpol eduxinc if white
> ==1,r;
Linear regression Number of obs = 1,379
F(16, 1362) = 40.39
Prob > F = 0.0000
R-squared = 0.4091
Root MSE = .19422
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Robust
ln_bav | Coef. Std. Err. t P>|t| [95% Conf. Interval]
-------------+----------------------------------------------------------------
eeduyrs | -.0070416 .0226508 -0.31 0.756 -.0514758 .0373926
eeduyrs2 | .0003209 .0004887 0.66 0.512 -.0006378 .0012795
ln_pol | .0150723 .0670348 0.22 0.822 -.1164303 .1465748
ln_inc | .0216956 .0308034 0.70 0.481 -.0387316 .0821229
age | .0006419 .0003682 1.74 0.081 -.0000803 .0013642
male | .007959 .010627 0.75 0.454 -.012888 .0288061
atlanta | -.0019269 .0148856 -0.13 0.897 -.031128 .0272743
boston | -.0035091 .0132536 -0.26 0.791 -.0295087 .0224906
black_intv | -.1851498 .021484 -8.62 0.000 -.2272951 -.1430045
latino_intv | -.0579046 .024699 -2.34 0.019 -.1063569 -.0094524
asian_intv | .0198891 .016291 1.22 0.222 -.0120691 .0518472
egal_values | -.3025506 .017591 -17.20 0.000 -.3370589 -.2680423
black_bias | -.3606016 .1233586 -2.92 0.004 -.602595 -.1186083
ln_wav | .1624409 .0234082 6.94 0.000 .116521 .2083608
eduxpol | .0028531 .0044045 0.65 0.517 -.0057872 .0114933
eduxinc | -.0013675 .0020988 -0.65 0.515 -.0054848 .0027497
_cons | 2.325092 .3355714 6.93 0.000 1.666799 2.983385
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
. outreg2 using paperdataBLK2.doc, word append title("White's Racial Attitudes T
> oward Black Americans") addstat(Adj. R2, e(r2_a), SER, e(rmse)) addtext(Nonlin
> ear Effects, YES, Value Controls, YES, Interactions, YES);
paperdataBLK2.doc
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dir : seeout
. /* Robustness Tests & Marginal Effects at the Means */
> reg ln_bav eeduyrs eeduyrs2 ln_pol ln_inc age male black_intv latino_intv asia
> n_intv boston atlanta egal_values black_bias ln_wav if white==1, r;
Linear regression Number of obs = 1,379
F(14, 1364) = 45.48
Prob > F = 0.0000
R-squared = 0.4088
Root MSE = .19413
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Robust
ln_bav | Coef. Std. Err. t P>|t| [95% Conf. Interval]
-------------+----------------------------------------------------------------
eeduyrs | -.0143118 .0127742 -1.12 0.263 -.039371 .0107473
eeduyrs2 | .0001701 .0004492 0.38 0.705 -.0007112 .0010514
ln_pol | .056362 .0128186 4.40 0.000 .0312157 .0815084
ln_inc | .0025089 .0062473 0.40 0.688 -.0097465 .0147643
age | .000631 .0003678 1.72 0.086 -.0000905 .0013526
male | .0083424 .0106351 0.78 0.433 -.0125204 .0292053
black_intv | -.1855004 .0214945 -8.63 0.000 -.2276662 -.1433346
latino_intv | -.0575345 .0247215 -2.33 0.020 -.1060308 -.0090381
asian_intv | .0205675 .0162205 1.27 0.205 -.0112523 .0523874
boston | -.0036657 .0132431 -0.28 0.782 -.0296447 .0223132
atlanta | -.0015381 .0148855 -0.10 0.918 -.0307391 .0276629
egal_values | -.3022918 .0175734 -17.20 0.000 -.3367657 -.267818
black_bias | -.3598369 .1244434 -2.89 0.004 -.6039581 -.1157158
ln_wav | .1620025 .0233843 6.93 0.000 .1161295 .2078755
_cons | 2.455997 .1271279 19.32 0.000 2.206609 2.705384
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
. test eeduyrs eeduyrs2;
( 1) eeduyrs = 0
( 2) eeduyrs2 = 0
F( 2, 1364) = 9.63
Prob > F = 0.0001
. di 1-chi2(2, 2*r(F));
.00006603
. estat ovtest;
Ramsey RESET test using powers of the fitted values of ln_bav
Ho: model has no omitted variables
F(3, 1361) = 9.47
Prob > F = 0.0000
. test black_intv latino_intv asian_intv;
( 1) black_intv = 0
( 2) latino_intv = 0
( 3) asian_intv = 0
F( 3, 1364) = 28.19
Prob > F = 0.0000
. di 1-chi2(3, 3*r(F));
0
TAYLOR: EDUCATION AND RACIAL ATTITUDES 29
. test ln_inc male age atlanta boston;
( 1) ln_inc = 0
( 2) male = 0
( 3) age = 0
( 4) atlanta = 0
( 5) boston = 0
F( 5, 1364) = 0.73
Prob > F = 0.6007
. di 1-chi2(5,5*r(F));
.60054139
. reg ln_bav eeduyrs eeduyrs2 ln_pol ln_inc age male atlanta boston black_intv
> latino_intv asian_intv egal_values black_bias ln_wav eduxpol eduxinc if white=
> =1,r;
Linear regression Number of obs = 1,379
F(16, 1362) = 40.39
Prob > F = 0.0000
R-squared = 0.4091
Root MSE = .19422
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Robust
ln_bav | Coef. Std. Err. t P>|t| [95% Conf. Interval]
-------------+----------------------------------------------------------------
eeduyrs | -.0070416 .0226508 -0.31 0.756 -.0514758 .0373926
eeduyrs2 | .0003209 .0004887 0.66 0.512 -.0006378 .0012795
ln_pol | .0150723 .0670348 0.22 0.822 -.1164303 .1465748
ln_inc | .0216956 .0308034 0.70 0.481 -.0387316 .0821229
age | .0006419 .0003682 1.74 0.081 -.0000803 .0013642
male | .007959 .010627 0.75 0.454 -.012888 .0288061
atlanta | -.0019269 .0148856 -0.13 0.897 -.031128 .0272743
boston | -.0035091 .0132536 -0.26 0.791 -.0295087 .0224906
black_intv | -.1851498 .021484 -8.62 0.000 -.2272951 -.1430045
latino_intv | -.0579046 .024699 -2.34 0.019 -.1063569 -.0094524
asian_intv | .0198891 .016291 1.22 0.222 -.0120691 .0518472
egal_values | -.3025506 .017591 -17.20 0.000 -.3370589 -.2680423
black_bias | -.3606016 .1233586 -2.92 0.004 -.602595 -.1186083
ln_wav | .1624409 .0234082 6.94 0.000 .116521 .2083608
eduxpol | .0028531 .0044045 0.65 0.517 -.0057872 .0114933
eduxinc | -.0013675 .0020988 -0.65 0.515 -.0054848 .0027497
_cons | 2.325092 .3355714 6.93 0.000 1.666799 2.983385
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
. test eduxpol eduxinc;
( 1) eduxpol = 0
( 2) eduxinc = 0
F( 2, 1362) = 0.42
Prob > F = 0.6577
. di 1-chi2(2,2*r(F));
.65756783
. estat ovtest;
Ramsey RESET test using powers of the fitted values of ln_bav
Ho: model has no omitted variables
F(3, 1359) = 9.43
TAYLOR: EDUCATION AND RACIAL ATTITUDES 30
Prob > F = 0.0000
. reg ln_bav c.eeduyrs c.eeduyrs#c.eeduyrs ln_pol ln_inc age male black_intv la
> tino_intv asian_intv boston atlanta if white==1,r;
Linear regression Number of obs = 1,379
F(11, 1367) = 11.96
Prob > F = 0.0000
R-squared = 0.1102
Root MSE = .23789
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Robust
ln_bav | Coef. Std. Err. t P>|t| [95% Conf. Interval]
-------------+----------------------------------------------------------------
eeduyrs | -.0042171 .0172933 -0.24 0.807 -.0381415 .0297073
|
c.eeduyrs#|
c.eeduyrs | -.000237 .0006094 -0.39 0.697 -.0014324 .0009584
|
ln_pol | .084677 .0165602 5.11 0.000 .0521908 .1171632
ln_inc | .0008011 .0077869 0.10 0.918 -.0144745 .0160768
age | .0003256 .0004152 0.78 0.433 -.0004889 .0011401
male | .0104088 .0130284 0.80 0.424 -.0151491 .0359667
black_intv | -.2148713 .0295294 -7.28 0.000 -.2727991 -.1569434
latino_intv | -.0629175 .0324002 -1.94 0.052 -.1264769 .000642
asian_intv | .0458511 .0186599 2.46 0.014 .009246 .0824562
boston | -.0221674 .0165041 -1.34 0.179 -.0545436 .0102088
atlanta | -.0314948 .0186687 -1.69 0.092 -.0681173 .0051276
_cons | 2.760086 .1463391 18.86 0.000 2.473013 3.04716
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
. margins, dydx(*) atmeans;
Conditional marginal effects Number of obs = 1,379
Model VCE : Robust
Expression : Linear prediction, predict()
dy/dx w.r.t. : eeduyrs ln_pol ln_inc age male black_intv latino_intv
asian_intv boston atlanta
at : eeduyrs = 14.22915 (mean)
ln_pol = 1.291399 (mean)
ln_inc = 10.96906 (mean)
age = 43.19217 (mean)
male = .4786077 (mean)
black_intv = .0833938 (mean)
latino_intv = .0406091 (mean)
asian_intv = .1348803 (mean)
boston = .2944162 (mean)
atlanta = .24438 (mean)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Delta-method
| dy/dx Std. Err. t P>|t| [95% Conf. Interval]
-------------+----------------------------------------------------------------
eeduyrs | -.0109613 .0028242 -3.88 0.000 -.0165016 -.005421
ln_pol | .084677 .0165602 5.11 0.000 .0521908 .1171632
ln_inc | .0008011 .0077869 0.10 0.918 -.0144745 .0160768
age | .0003256 .0004152 0.78 0.433 -.0004889 .0011401
male | .0104088 .0130284 0.80 0.424 -.0151491 .0359667
black_intv | -.2148713 .0295294 -7.28 0.000 -.2727991 -.1569434
latino_intv | -.0629175 .0324002 -1.94 0.052 -.1264769 .000642
asian_intv | .0458511 .0186599 2.46 0.014 .009246 .0824562
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boston | -.0221674 .0165041 -1.34 0.179 -.0545436 .0102088
atlanta | -.0314948 .0186687 -1.69 0.092 -.0681173 .0051276
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
. reg ln_bav c.eeduyrs c.eeduyrs#c.eeduyrs ln_pol ln_inc age male black_intv la
> tino_intv asian_intv boston atlanta egal_values black_bias ln_wav if white==1,
> r;
Linear regression Number of obs = 1,379
F(14, 1364) = 45.48
Prob > F = 0.0000
R-squared = 0.4088
Root MSE = .19413
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Robust
ln_bav | Coef. Std. Err. t P>|t| [95% Conf. Interval]
-------------+----------------------------------------------------------------
eeduyrs | -.0143118 .0127742 -1.12 0.263 -.039371 .0107473
|
c.eeduyrs#|
c.eeduyrs | .0001701 .0004492 0.38 0.705 -.0007112 .0010514
|
ln_pol | .056362 .0128186 4.40 0.000 .0312157 .0815084
ln_inc | .0025089 .0062473 0.40 0.688 -.0097465 .0147643
age | .000631 .0003678 1.72 0.086 -.0000905 .0013526
male | .0083424 .0106351 0.78 0.433 -.0125204 .0292053
black_intv | -.1855004 .0214945 -8.63 0.000 -.2276662 -.1433346
latino_intv | -.0575345 .0247215 -2.33 0.020 -.1060308 -.0090381
asian_intv | .0205675 .0162205 1.27 0.205 -.0112523 .0523874
boston | -.0036657 .0132431 -0.28 0.782 -.0296447 .0223132
atlanta | -.0015381 .0148855 -0.10 0.918 -.0307391 .0276629
egal_values | -.3022918 .0175734 -17.20 0.000 -.3367657 -.267818
black_bias | -.3598369 .1244434 -2.89 0.004 -.6039581 -.1157158
ln_wav | .1620025 .0233843 6.93 0.000 .1161295 .2078755
_cons | 2.455997 .1271279 19.32 0.000 2.206609 2.705384
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
. margins, dydx(*) atmeans;
Conditional marginal effects Number of obs = 1,379
Model VCE : Robust
Expression : Linear prediction, predict()
dy/dx w.r.t. : eeduyrs ln_pol ln_inc age male black_intv latino_intv
asian_intv boston atlanta egal_values black_bias ln_wav
at : eeduyrs = 14.22915 (mean)
ln_pol = 1.291399 (mean)
ln_inc = 10.96906 (mean)
age = 43.19217 (mean)
male = .4786077 (mean)
black_intv = .0833938 (mean)
latino_intv = .0406091 (mean)
asian_intv = .1348803 (mean)
boston = .2944162 (mean)
atlanta = .24438 (mean)
egal_values = .1559101 (mean)
black_bias = .0058013 (mean)
ln_wav = 2.502901 (mean)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Delta-method
| dy/dx Std. Err. t P>|t| [95% Conf. Interval]
TAYLOR: EDUCATION AND RACIAL ATTITUDES 32
-------------+----------------------------------------------------------------
eeduyrs | -.0094704 .0021928 -4.32 0.000 -.0137719 -.0051688
ln_pol | .056362 .0128186 4.40 0.000 .0312157 .0815084
ln_inc | .0025089 .0062473 0.40 0.688 -.0097465 .0147643
age | .000631 .0003678 1.72 0.086 -.0000905 .0013526
male | .0083424 .0106351 0.78 0.433 -.0125204 .0292053
black_intv | -.1855004 .0214945 -8.63 0.000 -.2276662 -.1433346
latino_intv | -.0575345 .0247215 -2.33 0.020 -.1060308 -.0090381
asian_intv | .0205675 .0162205 1.27 0.205 -.0112523 .0523874
boston | -.0036657 .0132431 -0.28 0.782 -.0296447 .0223132
atlanta | -.0015381 .0148855 -0.10 0.918 -.0307391 .0276629
egal_values | -.3022918 .0175734 -17.20 0.000 -.3367657 -.267818
black_bias | -.3598369 .1244434 -2.89 0.004 -.6039581 -.1157158
ln_wav | .1620025 .0233843 6.93 0.000 .1161295 .2078755
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
. reg ln_bav c.eeduyrs c.eeduyrs#c.eeduyrs c.eeduyrs#c.ln_pol c.eeduyrs#c.ln_in
> c age male black_intv latino_intv asian_intv boston atlanta egal_values black_
> bias ln_wav if white==1, r;
Linear regression Number of obs = 1,379
F(14, 1364) = 45.64
Prob > F = 0.0000
R-squared = 0.4089
Root MSE = .19411
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Robust
ln_bav | Coef. Std. Err. t P>|t| [95% Conf. Interval]
-------------+----------------------------------------------------------------
eeduyrs | -.0206097 .0134449 -1.53 0.126 -.0469845 .0057652
|
c.eeduyrs#|
c.eeduyrs | .0001819 .0004514 0.40 0.687 -.0007035 .0010674
|
c.eeduyrs#|
c.ln_pol | .0038634 .000844 4.58 0.000 .0022077 .005519
|
c.eeduyrs#|
c.ln_inc | .0001277 .0004275 0.30 0.765 -.000711 .0009663
|
age | .0006369 .0003674 1.73 0.083 -.0000839 .0013576
male | .0081117 .0106432 0.76 0.446 -.0127671 .0289905
black_intv | -.1857494 .0214466 -8.66 0.000 -.2278214 -.1436775
latino_intv | -.0586252 .0246988 -2.37 0.018 -.107077 -.0101735
asian_intv | .0205203 .0162175 1.27 0.206 -.0112936 .0523343
boston | -.0037176 .0132623 -0.28 0.779 -.0297344 .0222992
atlanta | -.0014695 .0148739 -0.10 0.921 -.0306477 .0277087
egal_values | -.3024985 .017642 -17.15 0.000 -.3371068 -.2678902
black_bias | -.3579279 .1230089 -2.91 0.004 -.5992351 -.1166206
ln_wav | .1621123 .0233548 6.94 0.000 .116297 .2079276
_cons | 2.552463 .1108456 23.03 0.000 2.335017 2.76991
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
. margins, dydx(*) atmeans;
Conditional marginal effects Number of obs = 1,379
Model VCE : Robust
Expression : Linear prediction, predict()
dy/dx w.r.t. : eeduyrs ln_pol ln_inc age male black_intv latino_intv
asian_intv boston atlanta egal_values black_bias ln_wav
at : eeduyrs = 14.22915 (mean)
TAYLOR: EDUCATION AND RACIAL ATTITUDES 33
ln_pol = 1.291399 (mean)
ln_inc = 10.96906 (mean)
age = 43.19217 (mean)
male = .4786077 (mean)
black_intv = .0833938 (mean)
latino_intv = .0406091 (mean)
asian_intv = .1348803 (mean)
boston = .2944162 (mean)
atlanta = .24438 (mean)
egal_values = .1559101 (mean)
black_bias = .0058013 (mean)
ln_wav = 2.502901 (mean)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Delta-method
| dy/dx Std. Err. t P>|t| [95% Conf. Interval]
-------------+----------------------------------------------------------------
eeduyrs | -.0090428 .0021989 -4.11 0.000 -.0133564 -.0047292
ln_pol | .0549722 .012009 4.58 0.000 .0314141 .0785304
ln_inc | .0018164 .0060833 0.30 0.765 -.0101173 .0137501
age | .0006369 .0003674 1.73 0.083 -.0000839 .0013576
male | .0081117 .0106432 0.76 0.446 -.0127671 .0289905
black_intv | -.1857494 .0214466 -8.66 0.000 -.2278214 -.1436775
latino_intv | -.0586252 .0246988 -2.37 0.018 -.107077 -.0101735
asian_intv | .0205203 .0162175 1.27 0.206 -.0112936 .0523343
boston | -.0037176 .0132623 -0.28 0.779 -.0297344 .0222992
atlanta | -.0014695 .0148739 -0.10 0.921 -.0306477 .0277087
egal_values | -.3024985 .017642 -17.15 0.000 -.3371068 -.2678902
black_bias | -.3579279 .1230089 -2.91 0.004 -.5992351 -.1166206
ln_wav | .1621123 .0233548 6.94 0.000 .116297 .2079276
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
. /* White's Views of Latino Americans */
> reg amval_lat eeduyrs ln_pol ln_inc age male atlanta boston black_intv latino_
> intv asian_intv if white==1, r ;
Linear regression Number of obs = 1,379
F(10, 1368) = 11.24
Prob > F = 0.0000
R-squared = 0.0796
Root MSE = 3.5844
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Robust
amval_lat | Coef. Std. Err. t P>|t| [95% Conf. Interval]
-------------+----------------------------------------------------------------
eeduyrs | -.2305773 .0405318 -5.69 0.000 -.3100887 -.151066
ln_pol | .9811717 .2402009 4.08 0.000 .5099697 1.452374
ln_inc | -.0309076 .1138037 -0.27 0.786 -.2541563 .1923411
age | .0001079 .0064894 0.02 0.987 -.0126223 .0128381
male | -.5881477 .1957894 -3.00 0.003 -.9722276 -.2040677
atlanta | -.8652753 .2655602 -3.26 0.001 -1.386225 -.344326
boston | .4556814 .2565617 1.78 0.076 -.0476156 .9589783
black_intv | -.964181 .3852557 -2.50 0.012 -1.719937 -.2084251
latino_intv | -1.755025 .510473 -3.44 0.001 -2.75642 -.7536304
asian_intv | .0740999 .2920474 0.25 0.800 -.4988094 .6470093
_cons | 18.8668 1.301646 14.49 0.000 16.31337 21.42024
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
. outreg2 using paperdataLAT.doc, word replace title("White's Racial Attitudes T
> oward Latino Americans") addstat(Adj. R2, e(r2_a), SER, e(rmse)) addtext(Nonli
> near Effects, NO, Value Controls, NO, Interactions, NO);
paperdataLAT.doc
TAYLOR: EDUCATION AND RACIAL ATTITUDES 34
dir : seeout
. reg ln_lav eeduyrs eeduyrs2 ln_pol ln_inc age male boston atlanta black_intv
> latino_intv asian_intv if white==1, r;
Linear regression Number of obs = 1,379
F(11, 1367) = 8.47
Prob > F = 0.0000
R-squared = 0.0742
Root MSE = .24434
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Robust
ln_lav | Coef. Std. Err. t P>|t| [95% Conf. Interval]
-------------+----------------------------------------------------------------
eeduyrs | -.0019483 .0161678 -0.12 0.904 -.0336646 .029768
eeduyrs2 | -.0004216 .0005793 -0.73 0.467 -.0015579 .0007148
ln_pol | .0698186 .0176936 3.95 0.000 .0351091 .1045282
ln_inc | -.0003609 .0077688 -0.05 0.963 -.0156011 .0148792
age | .0000461 .0004216 0.11 0.913 -.0007811 .0008732
male | -.0369887 .0134602 -2.75 0.006 -.0633936 -.0105837
boston | .0295119 .0173107 1.70 0.088 -.0044465 .0634703
atlanta | -.0588286 .0191778 -3.07 0.002 -.0964497 -.0212076
black_intv | -.0696706 .0289584 -2.41 0.016 -.1264784 -.0128628
latino_intv | -.1124735 .035482 -3.17 0.002 -.1820787 -.0428684
asian_intv | .0128365 .0191413 0.67 0.503 -.0247131 .0503861
_cons | 2.803708 .1418912 19.76 0.000 2.52536 3.082056
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
. outreg2 using paperdataLAT.doc, word append title("White's Racial Attitudes T
> oward Latino Americans") addstat(Adj. R2, e(r2_a), SER, e(rmse)) addtext(Nonli
> near Effects, YES, Value Controls, NO, Interactions, NO);
paperdataLAT.doc
dir : seeout
. reg ln_lav eeduyrs eeduyrs2 ln_pol ln_inc age male atlanta boston black_intv
> latino_intv asian_intv egal_values latino_bias ln_wav if white==1, r ;
Linear regression Number of obs = 1,379
F(14, 1364) = 58.44
Prob > F = 0.0000
R-squared = 0.3907
Root MSE = .19843
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Robust
ln_lav | Coef. Std. Err. t P>|t| [95% Conf. Interval]
-------------+----------------------------------------------------------------
eeduyrs | -.0141643 .0137772 -1.03 0.304 -.041191 .0128624
eeduyrs2 | .0000482 .0004887 0.10 0.921 -.0009106 .001007
ln_pol | .0322219 .0132501 2.43 0.015 .0062291 .0582147
ln_inc | .0004378 .0063223 0.07 0.945 -.0119647 .0128402
age | .000335 .0003607 0.93 0.353 -.0003725 .0010425
male | -.0409421 .0108171 -3.78 0.000 -.0621621 -.0197221
atlanta | -.027721 .0151514 -1.83 0.068 -.0574436 .0020016
boston | .0431014 .0137736 3.13 0.002 .0160817 .0701211
black_intv | -.0354013 .0220568 -1.61 0.109 -.0786703 .0078677
latino_intv | -.1113303 .0294962 -3.77 0.000 -.1691931 -.0534675
asian_intv | -.0095162 .0165906 -0.57 0.566 -.0420621 .0230296
egal_values | -.3201048 .0178018 -17.98 0.000 -.3550266 -.2851829
latino_bias | -.8644483 .082693 -10.45 0.000 -1.026668 -.702229
ln_wav | .1172083 .0229186 5.11 0.000 .0722488 .1621678
_cons | 2.656129 .1315448 20.19 0.000 2.398077 2.914181
TAYLOR: EDUCATION AND RACIAL ATTITUDES 35
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
. outreg2 using paperdataLAT.doc, word append title("White's Racial Attitudes To
> ward Latino Americans") addstat(Adj. R2, e(r2_a), SER, e(rmse)) addtext(Nonlin
> ear Effects, YES, Value Controls, YES, Interactions, NO);
paperdataLAT.doc
dir : seeout
. reg ln_lav eeduyrs eeduyrs2 ln_pol ln_inc age male atlanta boston black_intv
> latino_intv asian_intv egal_values latino_bias ln_wav eduxpol eduxinc if whit
> e==1,r;
Linear regression Number of obs = 1,379
F(16, 1362) = 52.46
Prob > F = 0.0000
R-squared = 0.3916
Root MSE = .19844
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Robust
ln_lav | Coef. Std. Err. t P>|t| [95% Conf. Interval]
-------------+----------------------------------------------------------------
eeduyrs | -.0282107 .0259823 -1.09 0.278 -.0791805 .0227591
eeduyrs2 | .0000247 .0005057 0.05 0.961 -.0009673 .0010168
ln_pol | -.0553469 .0675619 -0.82 0.413 -.1878835 .0771898
ln_inc | -.0089988 .0334685 -0.27 0.788 -.0746542 .0566567
age | .0003405 .0003606 0.94 0.345 -.0003669 .001048
male | -.0412942 .0108316 -3.81 0.000 -.0625427 -.0200457
atlanta | -.0276284 .0151662 -1.82 0.069 -.05738 .0021232
boston | .043339 .0137762 3.15 0.002 .0163141 .0703639
black_intv | -.0352992 .0219977 -1.60 0.109 -.0784523 .0078538
latino_intv | -.1121999 .0295926 -3.79 0.000 -.1702519 -.0541478
asian_intv | -.0095109 .0166532 -0.57 0.568 -.0421796 .0231578
egal_values | -.3201045 .01782 -17.96 0.000 -.3550622 -.2851468
latino_bias | -.8662062 .0840069 -10.31 0.000 -1.031003 -.7014092
ln_wav | .1173134 .0229367 5.11 0.000 .0723184 .1623084
eduxpol | .0060444 .0045317 1.33 0.182 -.0028454 .0149342
eduxinc | .0006796 .0023365 0.29 0.771 -.003904 .0052632
_cons | 2.85997 .3676552 7.78 0.000 2.138738 3.581202
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
. outreg2 using paperdataLAT.doc, word append title("White's Racial Attitudes To
> ward Latino Americans") addstat(Adj. R2, e(r2_a), SER, e(rmse)) addtext(Nonlin
> ear Effects, YES, Value Controls, YES, Interactions, YES);
paperdataLAT.doc
dir : seeout
. /* Robustness Tests & Marginal Effects at the Means */
> reg ln_lav eeduyrs eeduyrs2 ln_pol ln_inc age male black_intv latino_intv asia
> n_intv boston atlanta egal_values latino_bias ln_wav if white==1, r;
Linear regression Number of obs = 1,379
F(14, 1364) = 58.44
Prob > F = 0.0000
R-squared = 0.3907
Root MSE = .19843
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Robust
ln_lav | Coef. Std. Err. t P>|t| [95% Conf. Interval]
-------------+----------------------------------------------------------------
eeduyrs | -.0141643 .0137772 -1.03 0.304 -.041191 .0128624
eeduyrs2 | .0000482 .0004887 0.10 0.921 -.0009106 .001007
TAYLOR: EDUCATION AND RACIAL ATTITUDES 36
ln_pol | .0322219 .0132501 2.43 0.015 .0062291 .0582147
ln_inc | .0004378 .0063223 0.07 0.945 -.0119647 .0128402
age | .000335 .0003607 0.93 0.353 -.0003725 .0010425
male | -.0409421 .0108171 -3.78 0.000 -.0621621 -.0197221
black_intv | -.0354013 .0220568 -1.61 0.109 -.0786703 .0078677
latino_intv | -.1113303 .0294962 -3.77 0.000 -.1691931 -.0534675
asian_intv | -.0095162 .0165906 -0.57 0.566 -.0420621 .0230296
boston | .0431014 .0137736 3.13 0.002 .0160817 .0701211
atlanta | -.027721 .0151514 -1.83 0.068 -.0574436 .0020016
egal_values | -.3201048 .0178018 -17.98 0.000 -.3550266 -.2851829
latino_bias | -.8644483 .082693 -10.45 0.000 -1.026668 -.702229
ln_wav | .1172083 .0229186 5.11 0.000 .0722488 .1621678
_cons | 2.656129 .1315448 20.19 0.000 2.398077 2.914181
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
. test eeduyrs eeduyrs2;
( 1) eeduyrs = 0
( 2) eeduyrs2 = 0
F( 2, 1364) = 17.07
Prob > F = 0.0000
. di 1-chi2(2, 2*r(F));
3.877e-08
. estat ovtest;
Ramsey RESET test using powers of the fitted values of ln_lav
Ho: model has no omitted variables
F(3, 1361) = 1.08
Prob > F = 0.3548
. test black_intv latino_intv asian_intv;
( 1) black_intv = 0
( 2) latino_intv = 0
( 3) asian_intv = 0
F( 3, 1364) = 5.26
Prob > F = 0.0013
. di 1-chi2(3, 3*r(F));
.00125382
. test atlanta boston;
( 1) atlanta = 0
( 2) boston = 0
F( 2, 1364) = 10.79
Prob > F = 0.0000
. di 1-chi2(5,5*r(F));
2.135e-10
. reg ln_lav eeduyrs eeduyrs2 ln_pol ln_inc age male atlanta boston black_intv
> latino_intv asian_intv egal_values latino_bias ln_wav eduxpol eduxinc if white
> ==1,r;
Linear regression Number of obs = 1,379
F(16, 1362) = 52.46
Prob > F = 0.0000
TAYLOR: EDUCATION AND RACIAL ATTITUDES 37
R-squared = 0.3916
Root MSE = .19844
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Robust
ln_lav | Coef. Std. Err. t P>|t| [95% Conf. Interval]
-------------+----------------------------------------------------------------
eeduyrs | -.0282107 .0259823 -1.09 0.278 -.0791805 .0227591
eeduyrs2 | .0000247 .0005057 0.05 0.961 -.0009673 .0010168
ln_pol | -.0553469 .0675619 -0.82 0.413 -.1878835 .0771898
ln_inc | -.0089988 .0334685 -0.27 0.788 -.0746542 .0566567
age | .0003405 .0003606 0.94 0.345 -.0003669 .001048
male | -.0412942 .0108316 -3.81 0.000 -.0625427 -.0200457
atlanta | -.0276284 .0151662 -1.82 0.069 -.05738 .0021232
boston | .043339 .0137762 3.15 0.002 .0163141 .0703639
black_intv | -.0352992 .0219977 -1.60 0.109 -.0784523 .0078538
latino_intv | -.1121999 .0295926 -3.79 0.000 -.1702519 -.0541478
asian_intv | -.0095109 .0166532 -0.57 0.568 -.0421796 .0231578
egal_values | -.3201045 .01782 -17.96 0.000 -.3550622 -.2851468
latino_bias | -.8662062 .0840069 -10.31 0.000 -1.031003 -.7014092
ln_wav | .1173134 .0229367 5.11 0.000 .0723184 .1623084
eduxpol | .0060444 .0045317 1.33 0.182 -.0028454 .0149342
eduxinc | .0006796 .0023365 0.29 0.771 -.003904 .0052632
_cons | 2.85997 .3676552 7.78 0.000 2.138738 3.581202
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
. test eduxpol eduxinc;
( 1) eduxpol = 0
( 2) eduxinc = 0
F( 2, 1362) = 0.95
Prob > F = 0.3866
. di 1-chi2(2,2*r(F));
.38633586
. estat ovtest;
Ramsey RESET test using powers of the fitted values of ln_lav
Ho: model has no omitted variables
F(3, 1359) = 0.52
Prob > F = 0.6666
. reg ln_lav c.eeduyrs c.eeduyrs#c.eeduyrs ln_pol ln_inc age male black_intv la
> tino_intv asian_intv boston atlanta if white==1,r;
Linear regression Number of obs = 1,379
F(11, 1367) = 8.47
Prob > F = 0.0000
R-squared = 0.0742
Root MSE = .24434
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Robust
ln_lav | Coef. Std. Err. t P>|t| [95% Conf. Interval]
-------------+----------------------------------------------------------------
eeduyrs | -.0019483 .0161678 -0.12 0.904 -.0336646 .029768
|
c.eeduyrs#|
c.eeduyrs | -.0004216 .0005793 -0.73 0.467 -.0015579 .0007148
|
ln_pol | .0698186 .0176936 3.95 0.000 .0351091 .1045282
TAYLOR: EDUCATION AND RACIAL ATTITUDES 38
ln_inc | -.0003609 .0077688 -0.05 0.963 -.0156011 .0148792
age | .0000461 .0004216 0.11 0.913 -.0007811 .0008732
male | -.0369887 .0134602 -2.75 0.006 -.0633936 -.0105837
black_intv | -.0696706 .0289584 -2.41 0.016 -.1264784 -.0128628
latino_intv | -.1124735 .035482 -3.17 0.002 -.1820787 -.0428684
asian_intv | .0128365 .0191413 0.67 0.503 -.0247131 .0503861
boston | .0295119 .0173107 1.70 0.088 -.0044465 .0634703
atlanta | -.0588286 .0191778 -3.07 0.002 -.0964497 -.0212076
_cons | 2.803708 .1418912 19.76 0.000 2.52536 3.082056
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
. margins, dydx(*) atmeans;
Conditional marginal effects Number of obs = 1,379
Model VCE : Robust
Expression : Linear prediction, predict()
dy/dx w.r.t. : eeduyrs ln_pol ln_inc age male black_intv latino_intv
asian_intv boston atlanta
at : eeduyrs = 14.22915 (mean)
ln_pol = 1.291399 (mean)
ln_inc = 10.96906 (mean)
age = 43.19217 (mean)
male = .4786077 (mean)
black_intv = .0833938 (mean)
latino_intv = .0406091 (mean)
asian_intv = .1348803 (mean)
boston = .2944162 (mean)
atlanta = .24438 (mean)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Delta-method
| dy/dx Std. Err. t P>|t| [95% Conf. Interval]
-------------+----------------------------------------------------------------
eeduyrs | -.0139457 .0028905 -4.82 0.000 -.019616 -.0082754
ln_pol | .0698186 .0176936 3.95 0.000 .0351091 .1045282
ln_inc | -.0003609 .0077688 -0.05 0.963 -.0156011 .0148792
age | .0000461 .0004216 0.11 0.913 -.0007811 .0008732
male | -.0369887 .0134602 -2.75 0.006 -.0633936 -.0105837
black_intv | -.0696706 .0289584 -2.41 0.016 -.1264784 -.0128628
latino_intv | -.1124735 .035482 -3.17 0.002 -.1820787 -.0428684
asian_intv | .0128365 .0191413 0.67 0.503 -.0247131 .0503861
boston | .0295119 .0173107 1.70 0.088 -.0044465 .0634703
atlanta | -.0588286 .0191778 -3.07 0.002 -.0964497 -.0212076
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
. reg ln_lav c.eeduyrs c.eeduyrs#c.eeduyrs ln_pol ln_inc age male black_intv la
> tino_intv asian_intv boston atlanta egal_values latino_bias ln_wav if white==1
> , r;
Linear regression Number of obs = 1,379
F(14, 1364) = 58.44
Prob > F = 0.0000
R-squared = 0.3907
Root MSE = .19843
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Robust
ln_lav | Coef. Std. Err. t P>|t| [95% Conf. Interval]
-------------+----------------------------------------------------------------
eeduyrs | -.0141643 .0137772 -1.03 0.304 -.041191 .0128624
|
c.eeduyrs#|
TAYLOR: EDUCATION AND RACIAL ATTITUDES 39
c.eeduyrs | .0000482 .0004887 0.10 0.921 -.0009106 .001007
|
ln_pol | .0322219 .0132501 2.43 0.015 .0062291 .0582147
ln_inc | .0004378 .0063223 0.07 0.945 -.0119647 .0128402
age | .000335 .0003607 0.93 0.353 -.0003725 .0010425
male | -.0409421 .0108171 -3.78 0.000 -.0621621 -.0197221
black_intv | -.0354013 .0220568 -1.61 0.109 -.0786703 .0078677
latino_intv | -.1113303 .0294962 -3.77 0.000 -.1691931 -.0534675
asian_intv | -.0095162 .0165906 -0.57 0.566 -.0420621 .0230296
boston | .0431014 .0137736 3.13 0.002 .0160817 .0701211
atlanta | -.027721 .0151514 -1.83 0.068 -.0574436 .0020016
egal_values | -.3201048 .0178018 -17.98 0.000 -.3550266 -.2851829
latino_bias | -.8644483 .082693 -10.45 0.000 -1.026668 -.702229
ln_wav | .1172083 .0229186 5.11 0.000 .0722488 .1621678
_cons | 2.656129 .1315448 20.19 0.000 2.398077 2.914181
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
. margins, dydx(*) atmeans;
Conditional marginal effects Number of obs = 1,379
Model VCE : Robust
Expression : Linear prediction, predict()
dy/dx w.r.t. : eeduyrs ln_pol ln_inc age male black_intv latino_intv
asian_intv boston atlanta egal_values latino_bias ln_wav
at : eeduyrs = 14.22915 (mean)
ln_pol = 1.291399 (mean)
ln_inc = 10.96906 (mean)
age = 43.19217 (mean)
male = .4786077 (mean)
black_intv = .0833938 (mean)
latino_intv = .0406091 (mean)
asian_intv = .1348803 (mean)
boston = .2944162 (mean)
atlanta = .24438 (mean)
egal_values = .1559101 (mean)
latino_bias = .0029007 (mean)
ln_wav = 2.502901 (mean)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Delta-method
| dy/dx Std. Err. t P>|t| [95% Conf. Interval]
-------------+----------------------------------------------------------------
eeduyrs | -.0127931 .0022167 -5.77 0.000 -.0171417 -.0084445
ln_pol | .0322219 .0132501 2.43 0.015 .0062291 .0582147
ln_inc | .0004378 .0063223 0.07 0.945 -.0119647 .0128402
age | .000335 .0003607 0.93 0.353 -.0003725 .0010425
male | -.0409421 .0108171 -3.78 0.000 -.0621621 -.0197221
black_intv | -.0354013 .0220568 -1.61 0.109 -.0786703 .0078677
latino_intv | -.1113303 .0294962 -3.77 0.000 -.1691931 -.0534675
asian_intv | -.0095162 .0165906 -0.57 0.566 -.0420621 .0230296
boston | .0431014 .0137736 3.13 0.002 .0160817 .0701211
atlanta | -.027721 .0151514 -1.83 0.068 -.0574436 .0020016
egal_values | -.3201048 .0178018 -17.98 0.000 -.3550266 -.2851829
latino_bias | -.8644483 .082693 -10.45 0.000 -1.026668 -.702229
ln_wav | .1172083 .0229186 5.11 0.000 .0722488 .1621678
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
. reg ln_lav c.eeduyrs c.eeduyrs#c.eeduyrs c.eeduyrs#c.ln_pol c.eeduyrs#c.ln_in
> c age male black_intv latino_intv asian_intv boston atlanta egal_values latino
> _bias ln_wav if white==1, r;
Linear regression Number of obs = 1,379
TAYLOR: EDUCATION AND RACIAL ATTITUDES 40
F(14, 1364) = 58.43
Prob > F = 0.0000
R-squared = 0.3912
Root MSE = .19835
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Robust
ln_lav | Coef. Std. Err. t P>|t| [95% Conf. Interval]
-------------+----------------------------------------------------------------
eeduyrs | -.0181696 .014414 -1.26 0.208 -.0464456 .0101064
|
c.eeduyrs#|
c.eeduyrs | .0000692 .0004921 0.14 0.888 -.0008962 .0010346
|
c.eeduyrs#|
c.ln_pol | .0023536 .0008891 2.65 0.008 .0006094 .0040978
|
c.eeduyrs#|
c.ln_inc | .0000524 .0004401 0.12 0.905 -.0008108 .0009157
|
age | .0003328 .0003596 0.93 0.355 -.0003726 .0010383
male | -.0411881 .0108176 -3.81 0.000 -.062409 -.0199671
black_intv | -.0352243 .0220308 -1.60 0.110 -.0784422 .0079935
latino_intv | -.1115927 .0294772 -3.79 0.000 -.1694182 -.0537672
asian_intv | -.0099009 .0165832 -0.60 0.551 -.0424323 .0226305
boston | .0432701 .0137858 3.14 0.002 .0162265 .0703138
atlanta | -.0280599 .0151149 -1.86 0.064 -.0577109 .0015912
egal_values | -.3198157 .0178411 -17.93 0.000 -.3548148 -.2848167
latino_bias | -.8639942 .0832608 -10.38 0.000 -1.027327 -.700661
ln_wav | .1175451 .0229036 5.13 0.000 .0726151 .1624751
_cons | 2.70329 .1137674 23.76 0.000 2.480112 2.926468
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
. margins, dydx(*) atmeans;
Conditional marginal effects Number of obs = 1,379
Model VCE : Robust
Expression : Linear prediction, predict()
dy/dx w.r.t. : eeduyrs ln_pol ln_inc age male black_intv latino_intv
asian_intv boston atlanta egal_values latino_bias ln_wav
at : eeduyrs = 14.22915 (mean)
ln_pol = 1.291399 (mean)
ln_inc = 10.96906 (mean)
age = 43.19217 (mean)
male = .4786077 (mean)
black_intv = .0833938 (mean)
latino_intv = .0406091 (mean)
asian_intv = .1348803 (mean)
boston = .2944162 (mean)
atlanta = .24438 (mean)
egal_values = .1559101 (mean)
latino_bias = .0029007 (mean)
ln_wav = 2.502901 (mean)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Delta-method
| dy/dx Std. Err. t P>|t| [95% Conf. Interval]
-------------+----------------------------------------------------------------
eeduyrs | -.0125854 .002236 -5.63 0.000 -.0169718 -.0081991
ln_pol | .0334895 .0126516 2.65 0.008 .0086708 .0583082
ln_inc | .0007459 .0062615 0.12 0.905 -.0115374 .0130292
age | .0003328 .0003596 0.93 0.355 -.0003726 .0010383
TAYLOR: EDUCATION AND RACIAL ATTITUDES 41
male | -.0411881 .0108176 -3.81 0.000 -.062409 -.0199671
black_intv | -.0352243 .0220308 -1.60 0.110 -.0784422 .0079935
latino_intv | -.1115927 .0294772 -3.79 0.000 -.1694182 -.0537672
asian_intv | -.0099009 .0165832 -0.60 0.551 -.0424323 .0226305
boston | .0432701 .0137858 3.14 0.002 .0162265 .0703138
atlanta | -.0280599 .0151149 -1.86 0.064 -.0577109 .0015912
egal_values | -.3198157 .0178411 -17.93 0.000 -.3548148 -.2848167
latino_bias | -.8639942 .0832608 -10.38 0.000 -1.027327 -.700661
ln_wav | .1175451 .0229036 5.13 0.000 .0726151 .1624751
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
. /* White's Views of Asian Americans */
> reg amval_asn eeduyrs ln_pol ln_inc age male atlanta boston black_intv latino_
> intv asian_intv if white==1, r ;
Linear regression Number of obs = 1,379
F(10, 1368) = 6.02
Prob > F = 0.0000
R-squared = 0.0434
Root MSE = 3.3017
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Robust
amval_asn | Coef. Std. Err. t P>|t| [95% Conf. Interval]
-------------+----------------------------------------------------------------
eeduyrs | -.0892102 .0365666 -2.44 0.015 -.1609428 -.0174775
ln_pol | .1763173 .2091389 0.84 0.399 -.2339504 .586585
ln_inc | -.1533149 .1062302 -1.44 0.149 -.3617067 .0550768
age | -.0009424 .0058293 -0.16 0.872 -.0123777 .0104929
male | -.0906839 .1779444 -0.51 0.610 -.4397573 .2583895
atlanta | -.1807948 .240583 -0.75 0.452 -.6527463 .2911568
boston | 1.052092 .2279771 4.61 0.000 .6048693 1.499314
black_intv | 1.220217 .3450575 3.54 0.000 .543318 1.897116
latino_intv | -.141744 .4698157 -0.30 0.763 -1.063381 .7798933
asian_intv | -.1218378 .2817998 -0.43 0.666 -.6746444 .4309687
_cons | 15.91125 1.142979 13.92 0.000 13.66907 18.15343
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
. outreg2 using paperdataASN.doc, word replace title("White's Racial Attitudes T
> oward Asian Americans") addstat(Adj. R2, e(r2_a), SER, e(rmse)) addtext(Nonlin
> ear Effects, NO, Value Controls, NO, Interactions, NO);
paperdataASN.doc
dir : seeout
. reg ln_aav eeduyrs eeduyrs2 ln_pol ln_inc age male boston atlanta black_intv
> latino_intv asian_intv if white==1, r;
Linear regression Number of obs = 1,379
F(11, 1367) = 4.47
Prob > F = 0.0000
R-squared = 0.0331
Root MSE = .2726
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Robust
ln_aav | Coef. Std. Err. t P>|t| [95% Conf. Interval]
-------------+----------------------------------------------------------------
eeduyrs | -.003105 .0171592 -0.18 0.856 -.0367662 .0305561
eeduyrs2 | -.0000998 .0006121 -0.16 0.870 -.0013007 .001101
ln_pol | .0094743 .0171745 0.55 0.581 -.0242169 .0431655
ln_inc | -.0110652 .0088773 -1.25 0.213 -.0284798 .0063494
age | -.00002 .0004718 -0.04 0.966 -.0009454 .0009055
male | -.0031181 .014837 -0.21 0.834 -.0322239 .0259877
TAYLOR: EDUCATION AND RACIAL ATTITUDES 42
boston | .0751175 .0185686 4.05 0.000 .0386914 .1115436
atlanta | -.0184219 .0202405 -0.91 0.363 -.0581277 .021284
black_intv | .0884109 .0281928 3.14 0.002 .0331051 .1437167
latino_intv | -.010889 .0390885 -0.28 0.781 -.087569 .065791
asian_intv | -.0104676 .0239641 -0.44 0.662 -.057478 .0365428
_cons | 2.71721 .1478972 18.37 0.000 2.42708 3.00734
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
. outreg2 using paperdataASN.doc, word append title("White's Racial Attitudes T
> oward Asian Americans") addstat(Adj. R2, e(r2_a), SER, e(rmse)) addtext(Nonlin
> ear Effects, YES, Value Controls, NO, Interactions, NO);
paperdataASN.doc
dir : seeout
. reg ln_aav eeduyrs eeduyrs2 ln_pol ln_inc age male atlanta boston black_intv
> latino_intv asian_intv egal_values asian_bias ln_wav if white==1, r ;
Linear regression Number of obs = 1,379
F(14, 1364) = 46.69
Prob > F = 0.0000
R-squared = 0.3657
Root MSE = .22103
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Robust
ln_aav | Coef. Std. Err. t P>|t| [95% Conf. Interval]
-------------+----------------------------------------------------------------
eeduyrs | -.0146247 .0162218 -0.90 0.367 -.046447 .0171976
eeduyrs2 | .0002482 .0005628 0.44 0.659 -.0008558 .0013523
ln_pol | -.0021105 .0147194 -0.14 0.886 -.0309857 .0267647
ln_inc | -.0085991 .0072587 -1.18 0.236 -.0228385 .0056404
age | .0008141 .0004038 2.02 0.044 .000022 .0016061
male | -.0163225 .0118202 -1.38 0.168 -.0395101 .0068652
atlanta | .0176392 .0159958 1.10 0.270 -.0137399 .0490183
boston | .0759989 .015154 5.02 0.000 .0462711 .1057266
black_intv | .0988083 .0226284 4.37 0.000 .0544181 .1431985
latino_intv | -.0223923 .0316936 -0.71 0.480 -.0845657 .0397812
asian_intv | -.0580173 .0196254 -2.96 0.003 -.0965166 -.019518
egal_values | -.196682 .0197411 -9.96 0.000 -.2354082 -.1579559
asian_bias | -.3274019 .083064 -3.94 0.000 -.490349 -.1644548
ln_wav | .3890374 .0283263 13.73 0.000 .3334696 .4446053
_cons | 1.825471 .146685 12.44 0.000 1.537719 2.113224
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
. outreg2 using paperdataASN.doc, word append title("White's Racial Attitudes To
> ward Asian Americans") addstat(Adj. R2, e(r2_a), SER, e(rmse)) addtext(Nonline
> ar Effects, YES, Value Controls, YES, Interactions, NO);
paperdataASN.doc
dir : seeout
. reg ln_aav eeduyrs eeduyrs2 ln_pol ln_inc age male atlanta boston black_intv
> latino_intv asian_intv egal_values asian_bias ln_wav eduxpol eduxinc if white
> ==1,r;
Linear regression Number of obs = 1,379
F(16, 1362) = 41.85
Prob > F = 0.0000
R-squared = 0.3696
Root MSE = .22052
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Robust
ln_aav | Coef. Std. Err. t P>|t| [95% Conf. Interval]
TAYLOR: EDUCATION AND RACIAL ATTITUDES 43
-------------+----------------------------------------------------------------
eeduyrs | -.0461544 .025365 -1.82 0.069 -.0959131 .0036042
eeduyrs2 | -.0003504 .0006768 -0.52 0.605 -.0016781 .0009773
ln_pol | .1443738 .0779041 1.85 0.064 -.0084512 .2971988
ln_inc | -.0863531 .0371963 -2.32 0.020 -.1593213 -.0133849
age | .0007712 .0004021 1.92 0.055 -.0000176 .00156
male | -.0149787 .0117899 -1.27 0.204 -.038107 .0081495
atlanta | .0192029 .0159957 1.20 0.230 -.0121761 .0505818
boston | .0754541 .0151109 4.99 0.000 .0458109 .1050972
black_intv | .0975473 .0227713 4.28 0.000 .0528767 .1422179
latino_intv | -.0210222 .0319064 -0.66 0.510 -.0836132 .0415687
asian_intv | -.0553407 .0195457 -2.83 0.005 -.0936837 -.0169977
egal_values | -.1955101 .0197248 -9.91 0.000 -.2342044 -.1568158
asian_bias | -.3328865 .0821285 -4.05 0.000 -.4939986 -.1717744
ln_wav | .3870917 .0283565 13.65 0.000 .3314645 .442719
eduxpol | -.0101222 .0051824 -1.95 0.051 -.0202886 .0000441
eduxinc | .0055422 .0025761 2.15 0.032 .0004887 .0105957
_cons | 2.383898 .3628434 6.57 0.000 1.672106 3.095691
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
. outreg2 using paperdataASN.doc, word append title("White's Racial Attitudes To
> ward Asian Americans") addstat(Adj. R2, e(r2_a), SER, e(rmse)) addtext(Nonline
> ar Effects, YES, Value Controls, YES, Interactions, YES);
paperdataASN.doc
dir : seeout
. /* Robustness Tests & Marginal Effects at the Means */
> reg ln_aav eeduyrs eeduyrs2 ln_pol ln_inc age male black_intv latino_intv asia
> n_intv boston atlanta egal_values asian_bias ln_wav if white==1, r;
Linear regression Number of obs = 1,379
F(14, 1364) = 46.69
Prob > F = 0.0000
R-squared = 0.3657
Root MSE = .22103
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Robust
ln_aav | Coef. Std. Err. t P>|t| [95% Conf. Interval]
-------------+----------------------------------------------------------------
eeduyrs | -.0146247 .0162218 -0.90 0.367 -.046447 .0171976
eeduyrs2 | .0002482 .0005628 0.44 0.659 -.0008558 .0013523
ln_pol | -.0021105 .0147194 -0.14 0.886 -.0309857 .0267647
ln_inc | -.0085991 .0072587 -1.18 0.236 -.0228385 .0056404
age | .0008141 .0004038 2.02 0.044 .000022 .0016061
male | -.0163225 .0118202 -1.38 0.168 -.0395101 .0068652
black_intv | .0988083 .0226284 4.37 0.000 .0544181 .1431985
latino_intv | -.0223923 .0316936 -0.71 0.480 -.0845657 .0397812
asian_intv | -.0580173 .0196254 -2.96 0.003 -.0965166 -.019518
boston | .0759989 .015154 5.02 0.000 .0462711 .1057266
atlanta | .0176392 .0159958 1.10 0.270 -.0137399 .0490183
egal_values | -.196682 .0197411 -9.96 0.000 -.2354082 -.1579559
asian_bias | -.3274019 .083064 -3.94 0.000 -.490349 -.1644548
ln_wav | .3890374 .0283263 13.73 0.000 .3334696 .4446053
_cons | 1.825471 .146685 12.44 0.000 1.537719 2.113224
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
. test eeduyrs eeduyrs2;
( 1) eeduyrs = 0
( 2) eeduyrs2 = 0
F( 2, 1364) = 4.33
TAYLOR: EDUCATION AND RACIAL ATTITUDES 44
Prob > F = 0.0133
. di 1-chi2(2, 2*r(F));
.01312709
. estat ovtest;
Ramsey RESET test using powers of the fitted values of ln_aav
Ho: model has no omitted variables
F(3, 1361) = 2.89
Prob > F = 0.0345
. test black_intv latino_intv asian_intv;
( 1) black_intv = 0
( 2) latino_intv = 0
( 3) asian_intv = 0
F( 3, 1364) = 11.48
Prob > F = 0.0000
. di 1-chi2(3, 3*r(F));
1.605e-07
. test atlanta boston;
( 1) atlanta = 0
( 2) boston = 0
F( 2, 1364) = 12.84
Prob > F = 0.0000
. di 1-chi2(5,5*r(F));
1.651e-12
. reg ln_aav eeduyrs eeduyrs2 ln_pol ln_inc age male atlanta boston black_intv
> latino_intv asian_intv egal_values asian_bias ln_wav eduxpol eduxinc if white=
> =1,r;
Linear regression Number of obs = 1,379
F(16, 1362) = 41.85
Prob > F = 0.0000
R-squared = 0.3696
Root MSE = .22052
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Robust
ln_aav | Coef. Std. Err. t P>|t| [95% Conf. Interval]
-------------+----------------------------------------------------------------
eeduyrs | -.0461544 .025365 -1.82 0.069 -.0959131 .0036042
eeduyrs2 | -.0003504 .0006768 -0.52 0.605 -.0016781 .0009773
ln_pol | .1443738 .0779041 1.85 0.064 -.0084512 .2971988
ln_inc | -.0863531 .0371963 -2.32 0.020 -.1593213 -.0133849
age | .0007712 .0004021 1.92 0.055 -.0000176 .00156
male | -.0149787 .0117899 -1.27 0.204 -.038107 .0081495
atlanta | .0192029 .0159957 1.20 0.230 -.0121761 .0505818
boston | .0754541 .0151109 4.99 0.000 .0458109 .1050972
black_intv | .0975473 .0227713 4.28 0.000 .0528767 .1422179
latino_intv | -.0210222 .0319064 -0.66 0.510 -.0836132 .0415687
asian_intv | -.0553407 .0195457 -2.83 0.005 -.0936837 -.0169977
egal_values | -.1955101 .0197248 -9.91 0.000 -.2342044 -.1568158
asian_bias | -.3328865 .0821285 -4.05 0.000 -.4939986 -.1717744
ln_wav | .3870917 .0283565 13.65 0.000 .3314645 .442719
TAYLOR: EDUCATION AND RACIAL ATTITUDES 45
eduxpol | -.0101222 .0051824 -1.95 0.051 -.0202886 .0000441
eduxinc | .0055422 .0025761 2.15 0.032 .0004887 .0105957
_cons | 2.383898 .3628434 6.57 0.000 1.672106 3.095691
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
. test eduxpol eduxinc;
( 1) eduxpol = 0
( 2) eduxinc = 0
F( 2, 1362) = 3.88
Prob > F = 0.0209
. di 1-chi2(2,2*r(F));
.02062596
. estat ovtest;
Ramsey RESET test using powers of the fitted values of ln_aav
Ho: model has no omitted variables
F(3, 1359) = 3.15
Prob > F = 0.0242
. reg ln_aav c.eeduyrs c.eeduyrs#c.eeduyrs ln_pol ln_inc age male black_intv la
> tino_intv asian_intv boston atlanta if white==1,r;
Linear regression Number of obs = 1,379
F(11, 1367) = 4.47
Prob > F = 0.0000
R-squared = 0.0331
Root MSE = .2726
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Robust
ln_aav | Coef. Std. Err. t P>|t| [95% Conf. Interval]
-------------+----------------------------------------------------------------
eeduyrs | -.003105 .0171592 -0.18 0.856 -.0367662 .0305561
|
c.eeduyrs#|
c.eeduyrs | -.0000998 .0006121 -0.16 0.870 -.0013007 .001101
|
ln_pol | .0094743 .0171745 0.55 0.581 -.0242169 .0431655
ln_inc | -.0110652 .0088773 -1.25 0.213 -.0284798 .0063494
age | -.00002 .0004718 -0.04 0.966 -.0009454 .0009055
male | -.0031181 .014837 -0.21 0.834 -.0322239 .0259877
black_intv | .0884109 .0281928 3.14 0.002 .0331051 .1437167
latino_intv | -.010889 .0390885 -0.28 0.781 -.087569 .065791
asian_intv | -.0104676 .0239641 -0.44 0.662 -.057478 .0365428
boston | .0751175 .0185686 4.05 0.000 .0386914 .1115436
atlanta | -.0184219 .0202405 -0.91 0.363 -.0581277 .021284
_cons | 2.71721 .1478972 18.37 0.000 2.42708 3.00734
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
. margins, dydx(*) atmeans;
Conditional marginal effects Number of obs = 1,379
Model VCE : Robust
Expression : Linear prediction, predict()
dy/dx w.r.t. : eeduyrs ln_pol ln_inc age male black_intv latino_intv
asian_intv boston atlanta
at : eeduyrs = 14.22915 (mean)
ln_pol = 1.291399 (mean)
TAYLOR: EDUCATION AND RACIAL ATTITUDES 46
ln_inc = 10.96906 (mean)
age = 43.19217 (mean)
male = .4786077 (mean)
black_intv = .0833938 (mean)
latino_intv = .0406091 (mean)
asian_intv = .1348803 (mean)
boston = .2944162 (mean)
atlanta = .24438 (mean)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Delta-method
| dy/dx Std. Err. t P>|t| [95% Conf. Interval]
-------------+----------------------------------------------------------------
eeduyrs | -.0059461 .0031785 -1.87 0.062 -.0121813 .0002891
ln_pol | .0094743 .0171745 0.55 0.581 -.0242169 .0431655
ln_inc | -.0110652 .0088773 -1.25 0.213 -.0284798 .0063494
age | -.00002 .0004718 -0.04 0.966 -.0009454 .0009055
male | -.0031181 .014837 -0.21 0.834 -.0322239 .0259877
black_intv | .0884109 .0281928 3.14 0.002 .0331051 .1437167
latino_intv | -.010889 .0390885 -0.28 0.781 -.087569 .065791
asian_intv | -.0104676 .0239641 -0.44 0.662 -.057478 .0365428
boston | .0751175 .0185686 4.05 0.000 .0386914 .1115436
atlanta | -.0184219 .0202405 -0.91 0.363 -.0581277 .021284
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
. reg ln_aav c.eeduyrs c.eeduyrs#c.eeduyrs ln_pol ln_inc age male black_intv la
> tino_intv asian_intv boston atlanta egal_values asian_bias ln_wav if white==1,
> r;
Linear regression Number of obs = 1,379
F(14, 1364) = 46.69
Prob > F = 0.0000
R-squared = 0.3657
Root MSE = .22103
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Robust
ln_aav | Coef. Std. Err. t P>|t| [95% Conf. Interval]
-------------+----------------------------------------------------------------
eeduyrs | -.0146247 .0162218 -0.90 0.367 -.046447 .0171976
|
c.eeduyrs#|
c.eeduyrs | .0002482 .0005628 0.44 0.659 -.0008558 .0013523
|
ln_pol | -.0021105 .0147194 -0.14 0.886 -.0309857 .0267647
ln_inc | -.0085991 .0072587 -1.18 0.236 -.0228385 .0056404
age | .0008141 .0004038 2.02 0.044 .000022 .0016061
male | -.0163225 .0118202 -1.38 0.168 -.0395101 .0068652
black_intv | .0988083 .0226284 4.37 0.000 .0544181 .1431985
latino_intv | -.0223923 .0316936 -0.71 0.480 -.0845657 .0397812
asian_intv | -.0580173 .0196254 -2.96 0.003 -.0965166 -.019518
boston | .0759989 .015154 5.02 0.000 .0462711 .1057266
atlanta | .0176392 .0159958 1.10 0.270 -.0137399 .0490183
egal_values | -.196682 .0197411 -9.96 0.000 -.2354082 -.1579559
asian_bias | -.3274019 .083064 -3.94 0.000 -.490349 -.1644548
ln_wav | .3890374 .0283263 13.73 0.000 .3334696 .4446053
_cons | 1.825471 .146685 12.44 0.000 1.537719 2.113224
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
. margins, dydx(*) atmeans;
Conditional marginal effects Number of obs = 1,379
Model VCE : Robust
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  • 1. Measuring the Effect of Education on White Americans’ Racial Attitudes By Kyle E. Taylor* Access to education, particularly higher education, has been labeled a causal factor in determining white Americans’ racial attitudes, although some scholars disagree as to the direction of the effect. While many in sociology consider it an “iron law” that education begets tolerance (Schaefer, 1996), others argue that it instead makes dominant groups more aware of their collective interests and enables them to better defend their privileged position in social hierarchy (Wodtke, 2012). Using cross-sectional data from the 1992-1994 Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality, I create a metric to gauge white Americans’ attitudes of minority groups, using a variety of rigorous controls to establish causality. I find that education has a statistically significant, but immeasurable effect compared to other variables, particularly those controlling for the setting of the interview and other unobservable traits. (JEL J15, A14, I26) This paper seeks to extend previous scholars’ work on the source(s) of whites’ racial attitudes and further complicate the role education plays in eliminating or sustaining prejudice. While the majority of previous research has focused exclusively on white-black racial attitudes, this analysis includes whites’ perceptions of Latinos and Asian-Americans in addition to African- Americans. By creating innovative measures to control for individual unobserved traits, the regression analyses presented in this paper more precisely estimate the effect of additional years of schooling on the favorability with which white Americans view nonwhite Americans compared to previous studies. “Racial attitudes” often serves as a catch-all to describe various, and sometimes unrelated, emotions and perceptions survey respondents hold. Depending on the measure used, researchers have alternately demonstrated positive trends in whites’ acceptance of other races or shown * Department of Economics, Davidson College, Davidson, NC. Thanks to Dr. Mark Foley, Robby Kuster, Sam Martin, Pablo Zevallos, and other students and faculty who gave me new ideas and inspired me to see the project to its conclusion.
  • 2. TAYLOR: EDUCATION AND RACIAL ATTITUDES 2 whites to be no friendlier towards material racial equality than they ever have been.1 In my analysis, “racial attitudes” will be defined narrowly along four equally-weighted categories: perceptions of intelligence, laziness, amiability, and fairness. The purpose of this empirical project is to establish a causal link between years of schooling and white survey respondents’ racial attitudes towards nonwhites. I. Literature Review National data collection on racial attitudes began in the late 1940’s and continued in earnest through the Civil Rights Movement. Two reports motivated much of the early research: Gunnar Myrdal’s An American Dilemma, published in 1944, and Hyman, Sheatsley, Greely, and Taylor’s Scientific American reports, which began in 1956. Myrdal’s two-volume work cited what he believed to be a fundamental hypocrisy in the “American Creed”: opportunity and social mobility were only offered to a subset of the population; a black underclass was systematically left out of the “creed” (Bobo et al., 2012). The Scientific American reports were more optimistic. By the end of their second decade of research, scholars described a clear rise in integrationist and pro-equality sentiment among a wide majority of Americans; educational attainment was positively correlated with more favorable attitudes, while residence in the South and age were negatively correlated with favorable attitudes towards blacks (Bobo et al., 2012). 1 Schuman, Steeh, and Bobo’s Racial Attitudes in America (1985) offers perhaps the most complete empirical profile of the changing nature of racial attitudes, broadly defined, in recent history. The focus in this paper on quantitative research is not intended to suggest that qualitative research in this field is of secondary importance or provides less meaningful analysis. Eduardo Bonilla-Silva (2014) tackles the challenges of contemporary racism in Racism Without Racists.
  • 3. TAYLOR: EDUCATION AND RACIAL ATTITUDES 3 When Howard Schuman, Charlotte Steeh, and Lawrence Bobo published Racial Attitudes in America in the mid-1980’s, they did so at an inflection point in American racial relations.2 Brown v. Board of Education and the Civil Rights Movement were fading from white Americans’ collective memory; the new battles were being fought over school busing, affirmative action, and housing discrimination. Many of the perceived gains from the Civil Rights Movement were being reversed, and scholars and activists increasingly wondered whether the attitude shifts seen in previous decades were meaningful changes or socially-pressured survey responses which had little bearing on the material facts of everyday life. To understand how and why racial attitudes in America had first shifted towards equality and then away from it, Schuman and his colleagues combined survey data from the General Social Surveys, Institute for Social Research, and Gallup. They divided up survey questions into four categories: questions asking about respondents’ principled views on equality/integration; those asking about respondents’ support for interventionist policies to increase racial equality; and those asking about respondents’ comfort living in mixed-race neighborhoods and attending mixed-race schools. Respectively, they labeled these categories principle, implementation, and social distance; a fourth category was created for miscellaneous question items (Schuman et al., 1985). Although Schuman and his colleagues found consistent positive trends in whites’ racial attitudes on questions of principle across surveys and over time, their research did not establish a positive trend in whites’ support for questions of implementation, controlling for education. While the most-educated respondents tended to be on the leading edge of some survey responses, they only did so on questions on principle or when asked about their feelings towards one or two 2 Other research published at this time includes Apostle et al.’s (1983) work, The Anatomy of Racial Attitudes. His research team developed the Bay Area Survey, which was focused on identifying the sources of whites’ explanations for racial inequality.
  • 4. TAYLOR: EDUCATION AND RACIAL ATTITUDES 4 black families moving into their neighborhood. When the questions were related to implementation or involved a larger proportion of black Americans, educated whites’ responses converged towards the mean. The gap between support for equality in principle vs. equality in practice among the most educated quarters of white America has spawned two leading theories about the role education plays in shaping racial attitudes. Those in favor of the enlightenment theory of education see it as a liberalizing and democracy-reinforcing source of knowledge about the world and the historical, social, and economic factors responsible for shaping it.3 Proponents of enlightenment theory cite a wealth of survey data which suggests that more educated respondents are more likely to recognize gender inequities, less likely to hold anti-Semitic views, and more likely to be aware of environmental degradation, among other issues (Schaefer, 1996). Fundamentally, they argue that additional years of education increase young people’s commitment to the democratic values of tolerance and acceptance. Some empirical evidence supports this view: highly educated whites are more likely to reject racist stereotypes and endorse egalitarian principles than less educated whites (Schuman et al., 1985; Taylor & Mateyka, 2011; Wodtke, 2012). Other scholars have taken a more critical view of the response data around questions of implementation. Jackman (1984) argues provocatively that higher education, rather than increasing commitment to democratic values, instead cements latent white supremacist ideologies and allows whites to refine self-interested values, rather than challenge them. This theoretical perspective, termed ideological refinement, “views education not as enlightening but rather as an institution that endows dominant groups with a keen awareness of their group 3 See Wodtke (2012), Jackman & Muha (1984), and Schaefer (1996) for more in-depth discussion of the principle assumptions undergirding the Enlightenment Theory. Wodtke (2014) and Jackman & Muha (1984) compare these theoretical assumptions to those made by proponents of ideological refinement theory.
  • 5. TAYLOR: EDUCATION AND RACIAL ATTITUDES 5 interests, more advanced cognitive skills, and a set of ideological commitments that enable them to articulate an astute defense of their privileged position in the social hierarchy” (Wodtke, 2014). Even accepting that college campuses can instill democratic principles in their students, democratic commitments to individualism and meritocracy may overwhelm more progressive views on racial integration, especially when racial equality comes to mean equality of outcome at the expense of equality of opportunity (Shaefer, 1996). Empirical evidence supports this perspective as well: Bobo and Kluegel (1993) find that white Americans regardless of educational background are more in favor of redistributive policies which favor the poor than identically-designed policies which favor minorities, controlling for a variety of demographic and character-based traits. Wodtke (2012) and Jackman & Muha (1984) provide two of the most clearly contrasting and empirically-grounded analyses of the role education plays in shaping racial attitudes. Jackman’s work focuses broadly on the racial attitudes held by individuals who are members of a dominant social class (whites, men, and the wealthy). Using 1974 in-person survey data from the Survey Research Center of the University of Michigan, Jackman and Muha regress white respondents’ attitudes on education, controlling for age, region, and class background; 46 questions, most on a 9-point scale (with positive values suggesting more favorable attitudes), were split equally between those on race, gender, and class (Jackman & Muha, 1984). All variables were constructed as splines, with education broken down in component parts of less than high school, some high school, full high school, some college, bachelor’s, and master’s degree. If education were to instill egalitarian principles in people, than those should be more clearly expressed as individuals stay in school longer and result in measurable and statistically significant responses from research subjects.
  • 6. TAYLOR: EDUCATION AND RACIAL ATTITUDES 6 However, Jackman and Muha (1984) find that increasing education positively affects only one-fourth of the questions and negatively affects just as many. When controls were introduced, the coefficients on education categories decrease measurably, and “a clear positive relationship with education emerges as the exception rather than the rule [across all categories]” (Jackman & Muha, 1984). Notably, most of the positive coefficients are found on questions relating to race, which suggests they may have overstated their claim. In fact, college graduation accounts for half or more of a standard-deviation improvement in views towards integration, racial intelligence, perceived laziness, and general feeling of warmth towards nonwhites compared to the omitted category – less than a high school education (Jackman & Muha, 1984). Particularly, movement up each additional education bracket measurably improves whites’ perceptions of nonwhites’ dependability and intelligence. Their survey design also has two other flaws: the dummy variable for age includes only two brackets (younger or older than 34), and they ask respondents to self- report class status, a procedure which has been widely documented to result in individuals over- stating their class and increases the possibility of measurement error in the control variables. Taken together, these arguments suggest that Jackman and Muha’s argument for ideological refinement (1984) might be based more on respondents’ answers to questions about gender and class disparities than on those related to racial attitudes. Wodtke (2012) agrees with Jackman and Muha’s (1984) broad claim that increasing education does not affect whites’ racial attitudes, but instead posits what he calls a “revised group interest perspective” based on his empirical analysis. Using data from the General Social Surveys and Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality, Wodtke compares responses on identical questions using a logistic regression of negative stereotypes, perceptions of discrimination, and
  • 7. TAYLOR: EDUCATION AND RACIAL ATTITUDES 7 policy preferences on educational attainment (again constructed as a spline). He collapses whites’ responses from a 7-point scale to a binary scale, with all responses greater than or equal to 5 assigned a “1”. He controls for political ideology (also on a 7-point scale), gender, age, native status, parents’ education, income, city, race of the interviewer, and survey year (Wodtke, 2012). This broad set of controls yields more precise estimates than Jackman and Muha (1984) because it takes into account familial background, the role of the local community, and the setting of the interview, mitigating concerns of omitted variable bias if any of those traits is correlated with an individual’s perception of other races. For the regression of whites’ perceptions of other races’ intelligence/work ethic, all coefficients are measurable, statistically significant, and in the expected direction in both the GSS data and MCSUI (Wodtke, 2012). Wodtke (2012) does note, however, that increasing education is not positively related to whites’ support for redistributive policies – only those perceived to be opportunity-enhancing. Based on these mixed findings, he suggests that advanced education serves to marginalize ideas that are challenging to dominant structures, even if it does also bring some liberalizing values as well. These data suggest that the implementation-principle gap Schuman identified in the mid- 1980’s persists to the present day. They also point to the pitfall of omitted variable bias in regression analysis; the interview setting and unobserved personal values may play a larger role in determining survey respondents’ answers than an individual’s “true” opinions. Any analysis which does not attempt to control for these unobserved values cannot reliably estimate the role of education in shaping attitudes, particularly if an individual develops specific values independently of their schooling (for example, in their families or at the workplace). My model aims to confront the omitted variable bias problem and control for the setting of the interview to reliably estimate the role of education in shaping racial attitudes.
  • 8. TAYLOR: EDUCATION AND RACIAL ATTITUDES 8 NOTE: a score of 16 indicates neither positive nor negative favorability; scores below 16 are more favorable. Table 1: Descriptive Statistics Table 2: Racial Attitudes Statistics II. Data and Descriptive Statistics Researchers administering the Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality conducted over 8000 interviews with residents of four cities in the period from 1992-1994.4 The questions they asked about racial attitudes mirrored exactly those in the General Social Survey; the primary difference between the two studies is that the GSS aims to provide a representative snapshot of America on a biannual basis, while the MCSUI aimed more narrowly to capture the lives of Americans, particularly nonwhite, low-income Americans, in four specific communities. The four cities they chose – Atlanta, Boston, Detroit, and Los Angeles – had all in recent history been in the national spotlight as a hotbed of racial unrest (Rodney King in Los Angeles being the most recent example at that time). Their local emphasis allows for more contextual interpretations of survey responses, while still making comparisons between GSS responses a worthwhile undertaking. 4 Although the data was collected over the span of three years, data are cross-sectional, not longitudinal. TARGET GROUP RACE RESPONDENT’S RACE White Black Latino Asian White 12.728 (3.353) 15.634 (3.879) 14.252 (4.041) 14.275 (3.230) Black 16.251 (3.685) 14.628 (3.696) 17.799 (4.020) 18.114 (3.037) Latino 16.018 (3.722) 16.340 (3.774) 14.731 (3.808) 17.298 (2.788) Asian 13.448 (3.363) 15.703 (3.509) 14.723 (3.539) 11.678 (2.981) Variable Mean Std. Dev. Years of Education 14.229 2.551 Log(Politics) 1.291 0.455 Log(Income) 10.969 0.928 Age 43.192 15.244 Male 0.478 0.499 Log(Own Race Attitudes) 2.502 0.301 Black Bias 0.005 0.759 Latino Bias 0.003 0.054 Asian Bias 0.015 0.123 Egalitarian Values 0.156 0.363 White Interviewer 0.741 0.438 Black Interviewer 0.083 0.276 Latino Interviewer 0.040 0.197 Asian Interviewer 0.134 0.341 Boston 0.294 0.455 Atlanta 0.244 0.429 Los Angeles 0.461 0.498 Observations 1379
  • 9. TAYLOR: EDUCATION AND RACIAL ATTITUDES 9 In order to construct a single measure of “racial attitudes”, I took data from four survey questions and added respondents’ answers in those four categories (intelligence, working ethic, friendliness, and fairness). The survey questions asked respondents to what extent they believed members of races on average shared particular traits; a response of 1 indicated a positive position (“blacks are very intelligent”; “Latinos are very easy to get along with”), while a response of “7” indicated a negative position (“Asians strongly prefer welfare”; “whites treat others very unequally”). A score of “4” suggested that the particular race was “neither (positive trait) nor (negative trait)”. The result is a 24-point favorability index, with the lowest values indicating the greatest favorability on average; a score of 16 indicates neither a favorable nor unfavorable view of a particular group. Unlike other researchers who had run regressions on a question-by-question basis, I chose to create this favorability rating metric because I think it captures more holistically how individuals perceive members of other races, a valuable insight, I argue, because individuals do not interact in the narrow categories defined by the GSS and MCSUI. Table 2 summarizes all survey respondents’ answers to these questions about their own race and other races. Reading the table horizontally compares how favorably one race is viewed by other races; reading the table vertically compares how members of one race view other races on average. What is particularly clear is not that respondents view other races unfavorably in an absolute sense – only that they view other races less favorably than they view their own. White, black, and Asian respondents demonstrate a consistent and statistically significant preference for their own race, while Latinos are the only group who, on average, do not express a statistically significant difference between how favorably they view their own race in comparison to any other race. Asians’ and Latinos’
  • 10. TAYLOR: EDUCATION AND RACIAL ATTITUDES 10 ratings towards blacks are the most unfavorable scores, while whites’ rating of Asians represents the most favorable score given to any race that is not the respondent’s own. To narrow the focus on my analysis, I constricted my data set to white respondents who answered each of the four questions about all races without skipping or indicating that they “did not know/hadn’t thought about” an answer.5 This left just over 1350 respondents for my regression analysis. The average age of these respondents was 43 years old, and just over half were women. Adjusting for inflation, respondents’ average income was $57,500, and the average political view was a 3.98 out of 7, evenly split between liberal (1-3) and conservative (5-7). Educational attainment, expressed as the total number of completed years of schooling, is fairly high among this group; the average respondent completed at least some college. On the whole, these summary statistics suggest that respondents were somewhat more liberal than average white voter during this time and better educated. Given these trends, we might expect these respondents to have more favorable views of minorities than a representative survey of white Americans. III. Econometric Model & Results I hypothesize a non-linear, negative (read: favorable – this is due to the nature of the somewhat counter-intuitive favorability index) effect of education on whites’ racial attitudes towards minorities, with the marginal influence of education increasing as whites continue through school. I begin by positing the following base model to represent white racial attitudes, using controls which follow previous scholars’ work: 5 Tossing out “don’t knows” as well as any skipped/missed answers fully eliminated Detroit (respondents were not asked about Latinos or Asian-Americans). Bobo et al. (2012) argue that the rise in the number of “don’t know” responses merits further analysis.
  • 11. TAYLOR: EDUCATION AND RACIAL ATTITUDES 11 𝐹𝑎𝑣𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑏𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦 = −𝛽1 𝐸𝑑𝑢𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 + 𝛽2 𝐴𝑔𝑒 + 𝛽3 𝐼𝑛𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒 + 𝛽4 𝑃𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑠 − 𝛽5 𝐴𝑡𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑎 − 𝛽6 𝐵𝑜𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑛 − 𝛽7 𝐵𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑘𝐼𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤𝑒𝑟 − 𝛽8 𝐿𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑜𝐼𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤𝑒𝑟 − 𝛽9 𝐴𝑠𝑖𝑎𝑛𝐼𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑤𝑒𝑟 + 𝜀6 Again, because more favorable ratings are lower on the scale, I expect education to be negatively related with whites’ favorability towards minorities. Similarly, I expect whites interviewed by nonwhites to give more favorable answers about all nonwhite groups than they would if they had a white interviewer. Because Los Angeles experienced the most recent racial unrest, I excluded it from the analysis, assuming that respondents in Atlanta and Boston would be more favorable towards minorities than would those in Los Angeles. High-income and conservative politics I also assume will predict less favorable views. If education has a non- linear effect on racial attitudes following enlightenment theory, we might predict: 𝐹𝑎𝑣𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑏𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦 = −𝛽1 𝐸𝑑𝑢𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 − 𝛽2 𝐸𝑑𝑢𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛2 + (𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑙𝑠) + 𝜀 where the marginal effect of an additional year of education increases whites’ favorability of nonwhites at an increasing rate. Both the linear and nonlinear OLS models suffer from endogeneity problems as a result of omitted variable bias. White respondents may feel pressure to provide socially acceptable responses to their interviewers, or, alternately, may be compelled by unobserved values or principles to view all races equally. Finally, it is possible that respondents have prejudices towards certain races which may influence their response. If these social pressures, values, and prejudices are positively correlated with indicating favorability in a survey response, then the base model will overestimate the role of education in explaining the variance in racial attitudes. 6 In the regression, covariates include: eeduyrs = years of schooling; ln_inc is the log of income; ln_pol is the log of political ideology; (race)_intv is the race of the interviewer; ln_wav is the log of whites’ favorability of their own race. Other covariates are self-explanatory.
  • 12. TAYLOR: EDUCATION AND RACIAL ATTITUDES 12 I construct two control variables which are meant to represent unobserved social pressures, values, and prejudices. The first control is egal_values, a dummy variable indicating if the respondent gave the same numerical score to all races on one of the four categories. This control has the benefit of capturing both the social pressures a respondent might feel to give the perception of being egalitarian-minded as well as the very real value/moral imperative a respondent might feel to rate all respondents equally.7 11% of white respondents express this behavior. The second control is a set of bias dummy variables indicating if the respondent gave the same score to all members of a specific race on all questions – a hypothesized indicator of systemic prejudice. Very few whites expressed this behavior. A priori, I hypothesize the following relationship between these controls and the dependent variable: 𝐹𝑎𝑣𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑏𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦 = −𝛽1 𝐸𝑔𝑎𝑙_𝑉𝑎𝑙𝑢𝑒𝑠 + 𝛽2 𝐵𝑖𝑎𝑠 + 𝜀 The final control included is the respondent’s log(favorability) score of their own race. This coefficient on this variable specifies the elasticity between whites’ attitudes towards themselves and their attitude of others. Because it is possible that respondents were systematically biased on the day of their interview to give more positive or more negative ratings due to unobserved factors (being in a bad mood, being apathetic to the survey, etc.), this control is included as well. OLS regression results presented in Tables 3-5 summarize the effects of additional years of education on racial attitudes toward nonwhite groups. Column (1) in each table specifies the base model, and each column moving to the right introduces a new non-linear effect or “value control”. The log-linear models fit the data just as well as the linear models, and the quadratic terms for the regression on whites’ attitudes towards blacks and whites’ attitudes towards Latinos are statistically significant and pass the Ramsey RESET test. The log-linear model also has the 7 Specifically, this dummy variable would be assigned to respondents who believed, for example, that all races were equally intelligent, even if they didn’t believe that all were equally hard-working or friendly.
  • 13. TAYLOR: EDUCATION AND RACIAL ATTITUDES 13 benefit of providing a more easily interpretable result (“an additional year of schooling shifts racial attitudes by _X%_, on average, ceretis paribus”). In all regressions, the value controls dramatically improve the fit of the data and change the sign of the quadratic term from negative to positive, and the quadratic term remains statistically significant. Interaction terms were tested in column (5) to see if political views or class have counter-veiling effects on education. Each of the three sets of regressions will be analyzed in greater detail for the significance of specific control terms in addition to the variable of interest. A. WHITE RACIAL ATTITUDES TOWARDS BLACKS The base model in column (1) confirms my hypothesis in sign but not magnitude. An additional year of education increases whites’ favorability towards blacks by 0.1 points on the 24-point favorability scale, roughly 5% of a standard deviation. None of the coefficients on age, sex, income, or city are statistically different than zero. However, the interviewer effects are very strong in column (1) and throughout the regression, particularly when the interviewer is black. Looking at column (3), holding constant all other variables, having a black interviewer instead of a white interviewer improves whites’ stated favorability by 18.6 percentage points – three- quarters of a standard deviation. Interviewer effects are also statistically significant when the interviewer is Latino, but are not statistically different between Asian and white interviewers. Respondents who display egalitarian values are 30.6 percentage points more favorable towards blacks in the same regression. Meanwhile, an additional year of education at the mean of all other variables increases by a pedestrian 0.9 percentage points. The interaction terms in column (5) are also not statistically different from zero.
  • 14. TAYLOR: EDUCATION AND RACIAL ATTITUDES 14 Table 3: White Racial Attitudes Towards Black Americans (1) (2) (3) (4) VARIABLES Favorability Log(favorability) Log(favorability) Log(favorability) eeduyrs -0.182*** -0.00422 -0.0143 -0.00704 (0.0406) (0.0173) (0.0128) (0.0227) eeduyrs2 -0.000237 0.000170 0.000321 (0.000609) (0.000449) (0.000489) ln_pol 1.201*** 0.0847*** 0.0564*** 0.0151 (0.231) (0.0166) (0.0128) (0.0670) ln_inc 0.00503 0.000801 0.00251 0.0217 (0.114) (0.00779) (0.00625) (0.0308) age 0.00631 0.000326 0.000631* 0.000642* (0.00631) (0.000415) (0.000368) (0.000368) male 0.139 0.0104 0.00834 0.00796 (0.192) (0.0130) (0.0106) (0.0106) atlanta -0.333 -0.0315* -0.00154 -0.00193 (0.265) (0.0187) (0.0149) (0.0149) boston -0.360 -0.0222 -0.00367 -0.00351 (0.240) (0.0165) (0.0132) (0.0133) black_intv -3.028*** -0.215*** -0.186*** -0.185*** (0.357) (0.0295) (0.0215) (0.0215) latino_intv -1.031** -0.0629* -0.0575** -0.0579** (0.475) (0.0324) (0.0247) (0.0247) asian_intv 0.725** 0.0459** 0.0206 0.0199 (0.297) (0.0187) (0.0162) (0.0163) egal_values -0.302*** -0.303*** (0.0176) (0.0176) black_bias -0.360*** -0.361*** (0.124) (0.123) ln_wav 0.162*** 0.162*** (0.0234) (0.0234) eduxpol 0.00285 (0.00440) eduxinc -0.00137 (0.00210) Constant 17.28*** 2.760*** 2.456*** 2.325*** (1.285) (0.146) (0.127) (0.336) Observations 1,379 1,379 1,379 1,379 R-squared 0.108 0.110 0.409 0.409 Nonlinear Effects NO YES YES YES Value Controls NO NO YES YES Interactions NO NO NO YES Adj. R2 0.101 0.103 0.403 0.402 SER 3.494 0.238 0.194 0.194 Robust standard errors in parentheses *** p<0.01, ** p<0.05, * p<0.1
  • 15. TAYLOR: EDUCATION AND RACIAL ATTITUDES 15 B. WHITE RACIAL ATTITUDES TOWARDS ASIANS The regression of whites’ racial attitudes towards Asian-Americans yields a very different result, although one that is similarly pessimistic about the role education plays in implanting favorable values towards minorities. Some of the controls which were insignificant in the regression involving whites’ attitudes towards blacks are consistently significant here, particularly the city and age variables. I hypothesize that this is due to the higher prevalence of Asian-Americans living on the west coast, where they are more likely to be neighbors and co- workers of the survey respondents. Similarly, aging ten years 0.7 percentage points less favorable toward Asian-Americans, a trend likely due to older whites’ memories of WWII and the Vietnam War. Additional years of schooling, meanwhile, do not display a nonlinear relationship with favorability, and only account for a 0.7 percentage point increase in favorability at the mean of the control variables using the regression in column (3). Again, the interaction terms are not statistically significant. C. WHITE RACIAL ATTITUDES TOWARDS LATINOS The coefficients on education in the regression on white attitudes toward Latino-Americans appears similar to that in the regression on attitudes towards black Americans, although additional years of education have a slightly more positive effect. Using the regression in column (3), an additional year of education increases whites’ favorability by 1.3 percentage points at the means of the other variables. Again, some covariates which were insignificant in the regression on black attitudes are significant here: sex and city. Women are less favorable towards Latinos than men, and Bostonians are more favorable than those in any other city.
  • 16. Table 4: White Racial Attitudes Toward Asian Americans (1) (2) (3) (4) VARIABLES Favorability Log(favorability) Log(favorability) Log(favorability) eeduyrs -0.0892** -0.00311 -0.0146 -0.0462* (0.0366) (0.0172) (0.0162) (0.0254) eeduyrs2 -9.98e-05 0.000248 -0.000350 (0.000612) (0.000563) (0.000677) ln_pol 0.176 0.00947 -0.00211 0.144* (0.209) (0.0172) (0.0147) (0.0779) ln_inc -0.153 -0.0111 -0.00860 -0.0864** (0.106) (0.00888) (0.00726) (0.0372) age -0.000942 -2.00e-05 0.000814** 0.000771* (0.00583) (0.000472) (0.000404) (0.000402) male -0.0907 -0.00312 -0.0163 -0.0150 (0.178) (0.0148) (0.0118) (0.0118) atlanta -0.181 -0.0184 0.0176 0.0192 (0.241) (0.0202) (0.0160) (0.0160) boston 1.052*** 0.0751*** 0.0760*** 0.0755*** (0.228) (0.0186) (0.0152) (0.0151) black_intv 1.220*** 0.0884*** 0.0988*** 0.0975*** (0.345) (0.0282) (0.0226) (0.0228) latino_intv -0.142 -0.0109 -0.0224 -0.0210 (0.470) (0.0391) (0.0317) (0.0319) asian_intv -0.122 -0.0105 -0.0580*** -0.0553*** (0.282) (0.0240) (0.0196) (0.0195) egal_values -0.197*** -0.196*** (0.0197) (0.0197) asian_bias -0.327*** -0.333*** (0.0831) (0.0821) ln_wav 0.389*** 0.387*** (0.0283) (0.0284) eduxpol -0.0101* (0.00518) eduxinc 0.00554** (0.00258) Constant 15.91*** 2.717*** 1.825*** 2.384*** (1.143) (0.148) (0.147) (0.363) Observations 1,379 1,379 1,379 1,379 R-squared 0.043 0.033 0.366 0.370 Nonlinear Effects NO YES YES YES Value Controls NO NO YES YES Interactions NO NO NO YES Adj. R2 0.0364 0.0254 0.359 0.362 SER 3.302 0.273 0.221 0.221 Robust standard errors in parentheses *** p<0.01, ** p<0.05, * p<0.1
  • 17. TAYLOR: EDUCATION AND RACIAL ATTITUDES 17 Table 5: White Racial Attitudes Towards Latino Americans (1) (2) (3) (4) VARIABLES Favorability Log(favorability) Log(favorability) Log(favorability) eeduyrs -0.231*** -0.00195 -0.0142 -0.0282 (0.0405) (0.0162) (0.0138) (0.0260) eeduyrs2 -0.000422 4.82e-05 2.47e-05 (0.000579) (0.000489) (0.000506) ln_pol 0.981*** 0.0698*** 0.0322** -0.0553 (0.240) (0.0177) (0.0133) (0.0676) ln_inc -0.0309 -0.000361 0.000438 -0.00900 (0.114) (0.00777) (0.00632) (0.0335) age 0.000108 4.61e-05 0.000335 0.000341 (0.00649) (0.000422) (0.000361) (0.000361) male -0.588*** -0.0370*** -0.0409*** -0.0413*** (0.196) (0.0135) (0.0108) (0.0108) atlanta -0.865*** -0.0588*** -0.0277* -0.0276* (0.266) (0.0192) (0.0152) (0.0152) boston 0.456* 0.0295* 0.0431*** 0.0433*** (0.257) (0.0173) (0.0138) (0.0138) black_intv -0.964** -0.0697** -0.0354 -0.0353 (0.385) (0.0290) (0.0221) (0.0220) latino_intv -1.755*** -0.112*** -0.111*** -0.112*** (0.510) (0.0355) (0.0295) (0.0296) asian_intv 0.0741 0.0128 -0.00952 -0.00951 (0.292) (0.0191) (0.0166) (0.0167) egal_values -0.320*** -0.320*** (0.0178) (0.0178) latino_bias -0.864*** -0.866*** (0.0827) (0.0840) ln_wav 0.117*** 0.117*** (0.0229) (0.0229) eduxpol 0.00604 (0.00453) eduxinc 0.000680 (0.00234) Constant 18.87*** 2.804*** 2.656*** 2.860*** (1.302) (0.142) (0.132) (0.368) Observations 1,379 1,379 1,379 1,379 R-squared 0.080 0.074 0.391 0.392 Nonlinear Effects NO YES YES YES Value Controls NO NO YES YES Interactions NO NO NO YES Adj. R2 0.0729 0.0667 0.384 0.384 SER 3.584 0.244 0.198 0.198 Robust standard errors in parentheses *** p<0.01, ** p<0.05, * p<0.1
  • 18. TAYLOR: EDUCATION AND RACIAL ATTITUDES 18 D. ASSESSMENT OF VALIDITY & CAUSALITY Interviewer effects and egalitarian behavior are the strongest and most statistically significant predictors of whites’ racial attitudes in these regressions. However, it is important to understand whether egalitarian views in particular are collinear with education or endogenous to racial attitudes. If, for example, additional years of schooling increases the likelihood that an individual displays egalitarian values, then including that term in the regression will dampen the effect of education and make it appear to be less meaningful in determining attitudes than it in fact is. I tested this hypothesis using probit and logit regressions on both years of schooling and whether the respondent had a bachelor’s degree, controlling for the same factors included in all other regressions. Holding a bachelor’s degree increases the likelihood that an individual will display egalitarian values by 4.5 percentage points in the probit regression, while an additional year of school increases the likelihood of exhibiting this behavior by 0.5 percentage points on average in a similar probit regression. Thus, I conclude that exhibiting egalitarian values in the interview setting is not co-determined by educational background. Other sources of endogeneity might stem from sample selection bias. If individuals with moderate views are the ones most likely to indicate that they “do not know/haven’t thought about it”, then excluding them from the regression might understate the role of education in increasing white respondents’ favorability towards minorities. However, given the magnitude of the coefficient on the variable-of-interest, is likely that even finding a way to coax responses out of moderate or apathetic individuals would have little effect on the regression results.
  • 19. TAYLOR: EDUCATION AND RACIAL ATTITUDES 19 Table 6: White Racial Attitudes Self-Revelation Models African-Amer. Latino Asian-Amer. VARIABLES Log(favorability) Log(favorability) Log(favorability) eeduyrs -0.0179 -0.0162 -0.00915*** (0.0124) (0.0137) (0.00239) eeduyrs2 0.000309 0.000118 (0.000437) (0.000484) ln_pol 0.0592*** 0.0334** -0.00537 (0.0124) (0.0131) (0.0143) black_intv -0.185*** -0.0354 0.104*** (0.0208) (0.0217) (0.0224) latino_intv -0.0565** -0.111*** -0.0179 (0.0239) (0.0289) (0.0314) asian_intv 0.0244* -0.00915 -0.0589*** (0.0146) (0.0166) (0.0195) egal_values -0.304*** -0.321*** -0.197*** (0.0176) (0.0178) (0.0197) ln_wav 0.158*** 0.115*** 0.389*** (0.0235) (0.0229) (0.0284) male -0.0415*** (0.0108) atlanta -0.0288* 0.0175 (0.0151) (0.0160) boston 0.0424*** 0.0787*** (0.0138) (0.0151) latino_bias -0.862*** (0.0831) black_bias -0.361*** (0.123) age 0.000873** (0.000400) asian_bias -0.321*** (0.0839) Constant 2.542*** 2.695*** 1.698*** (0.106) (0.110) (0.0880) Observations 1,379 1,379 1,379 R-squared 0.407 0.390 0.364 Adj. R2 0.403 0.385 0.359 SER 0.194 0.198 0.221 Robust standard errors in parentheses *** p<0.01, ** p<0.05, * p<0.1
  • 20. TAYLOR: EDUCATION AND RACIAL ATTITUDES 20 E. SELF-REVELATION MODEL After assessing all regression models for their internal and external validity and the significance of their coefficients, I constructed the self-revelation models displayed in Table 6. Most notably, the “best” model is the one predicting whites’ favorability towards blacks, with views towards Asian-Americans being the least accurately predicted. I hypothesize that this is the case because the social pressures and stigma associated with indicating negative views of blacks are more salient than those related to Latinos or Asians, particularly in the early 90’s. The coefficient on black_intv in the regression analyzing attitudes towards blacks is larger and more significant than any other interviewer coefficient in any other regression. Moving from equation (1) to (3), the average marginal effect of an additional year of education is -1.1 percentage points, -1.6 percentage points, and -1.1 percentage points. IV. Discussion Including rigorous controls diminishes the effect of education on racial attitudes towards all minority groups and changes the sign of the quadratic term in the regression from negative to positive. This finding contradicts my null hypothesis, but confirms Schuman et al. (1983) and Wodtke’s (2012) studies, as both found that more educated white Americans were more likely to express favorable views of minorities on certain questions, but that the effect diminishes past a certain point. In general, my results provide good reason to be skeptical about the role of education in creating more tolerant individuals, particularly given that the effect of additional years of schooling on racial attitudes decreases with more education. Importantly, because my coefficients are significant, and, over the very long term, measurably effect racial attitudes
  • 21. TAYLOR: EDUCATION AND RACIAL ATTITUDES 21 towards minorities, I reject Jackman and Muha’s (1984) claim that the most educated members of society are those with the most hostile racial attitudes. Collecting survey data to measure racial attitudes could in itself be a significant barrier to understanding the state of racial relations in America. Because of the profound role interviewer effects play in mediating survey answers, people may simply respond to the social cues of the situation, rather than spend time in thought reflecting on where their “true” values lie. Because the GSS and MCSUI both use interviews to conduct their research, it is imperative that empirical analysis control for race-of-interviewer effects. Moreover, because many of the reasons why survey-takers respond to racially-loaded questions in ways that are unobservable and value- driven, researchers need to continue to search for more and more rigorous ways to control for them. More than providing reason for skepticism about the role of education in shaping racial attitudes, my results suggest reason for being skeptical of the data itself.
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  • 23. TAYLOR: EDUCATION AND RACIAL ATTITUDES 23 APPENDIX A
  • 24. TAYLOR: EDUCATION AND RACIAL ATTITUDES 24
  • 25. TAYLOR: EDUCATION AND RACIAL ATTITUDES 25 APPENDIX B -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- name: <unnamed> log: Z:MetricsProjectDatapaperdata.txt log type: text opened on: 16 Dec 2015, 17:17:57 . use projectdata.dta; . sum eeduyrs politics age male female white_intv black_intv latino_intv asian_ > intv boston atlanta los_angeles if white==1; Variable | Obs Mean Std. Dev. Min Max -------------+--------------------------------------------------------- eeduyrs | 1,379 14.22915 2.551301 2 20 politics | 1,379 3.978245 1.500205 1 7 age | 1,379 43.19217 15.24469 21 87 male | 1,379 .4786077 .4997234 0 1 female | 1,379 .5213923 .4997234 0 1 -------------+--------------------------------------------------------- white_intv | 1,379 .7411168 .4381803 0 1 black_intv | 1,379 .0833938 .2765768 0 1 latino_intv | 1,379 .0406091 .1974546 0 1 asian_intv | 1,379 .1348803 .3417196 0 1 boston | 1,379 .2944162 .4559452 0 1 -------------+--------------------------------------------------------- atlanta | 1,379 .24438 .4298749 0 1 los_angeles | 1,379 .4612038 .4986734 0 1 . sum amval_blk amval_lat amval_asn ln_bav ln_lav ln_aav if white==1; Variable | Obs Mean Std. Dev. Min Max -------------+--------------------------------------------------------- amval_blk | 1,379 16.25163 3.68574 4 28 amval_lat | 1,379 16.01813 3.722655 4 28 amval_asn | 1,379 13.44888 3.363462 4 28 ln_bav | 1,379 2.759229 .2511846 1.386294 3.332205 ln_lav | 1,379 2.744045 .252926 1.386294 3.332205 -------------+--------------------------------------------------------- ln_aav | 1,379 2.563804 .2761204 1.386294 3.332205 . sum amval_wht amval_blk amval_lat amval_asn if white==1; Variable | Obs Mean Std. Dev. Min Max -------------+--------------------------------------------------------- amval_wht | 1,379 12.72806 3.353077 4 23 amval_blk | 1,379 16.25163 3.68574 4 28 amval_lat | 1,379 16.01813 3.722655 4 28 amval_asn | 1,379 13.44888 3.363462 4 28 . /* White's Views of Black Americans */ > reg amval_blk eeduyrs ln_pol ln_inc age male atlanta boston black_intv latino_ > intv asian_intv if white==1, r ; Linear regression Number of obs = 1,379 F(10, 1368) = 16.25 Prob > F = 0.0000 R-squared = 0.1077 Root MSE = 3.4943 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Robust amval_blk | Coef. Std. Err. t P>|t| [95% Conf. Interval]
  • 26. TAYLOR: EDUCATION AND RACIAL ATTITUDES 26 -------------+---------------------------------------------------------------- eeduyrs | -.1818185 .0405902 -4.48 0.000 -.2614444 -.1021927 ln_pol | 1.200639 .2312285 5.19 0.000 .7470384 1.65424 ln_inc | .005025 .1137331 0.04 0.965 -.2180851 .2281351 age | .0063129 .0063134 1.00 0.318 -.006072 .0186978 male | .1388122 .1920538 0.72 0.470 -.2379397 .5155642 atlanta | -.3329273 .2654091 -1.25 0.210 -.8535803 .1877257 boston | -.3599119 .2403645 -1.50 0.135 -.8314348 .111611 black_intv | -3.027721 .3572244 -8.48 0.000 -3.728488 -2.326955 latino_intv | -1.031129 .4753075 -2.17 0.030 -1.963539 -.0987179 asian_intv | .7249081 .2970908 2.44 0.015 .1421052 1.307711 _cons | 17.27794 1.284931 13.45 0.000 14.75729 19.79859 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ . outreg2 using paperdataBLK2.doc, word replace title("White's Racial Attitudes > Toward Black Americans") addstat(Adj. R2, e(r2_a), SER, e(rmse)) addtext(Nonli > near Effects, NO, Value Controls, NO, Interactions, NO); paperdataBLK2.doc dir : seeout . reg ln_bav eeduyrs eeduyrs2 ln_pol ln_inc age male boston atlanta black_intv > latino_intv asian_intv if white==1, r; Linear regression Number of obs = 1,379 F(11, 1367) = 11.96 Prob > F = 0.0000 R-squared = 0.1102 Root MSE = .23789 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Robust ln_bav | Coef. Std. Err. t P>|t| [95% Conf. Interval] -------------+---------------------------------------------------------------- eeduyrs | -.0042171 .0172933 -0.24 0.807 -.0381415 .0297073 eeduyrs2 | -.000237 .0006094 -0.39 0.697 -.0014324 .0009584 ln_pol | .084677 .0165602 5.11 0.000 .0521908 .1171632 ln_inc | .0008011 .0077869 0.10 0.918 -.0144745 .0160768 age | .0003256 .0004152 0.78 0.433 -.0004889 .0011401 male | .0104088 .0130284 0.80 0.424 -.0151491 .0359667 boston | -.0221674 .0165041 -1.34 0.179 -.0545436 .0102088 atlanta | -.0314948 .0186687 -1.69 0.092 -.0681173 .0051276 black_intv | -.2148713 .0295294 -7.28 0.000 -.2727991 -.1569434 latino_intv | -.0629175 .0324002 -1.94 0.052 -.1264769 .000642 asian_intv | .0458511 .0186599 2.46 0.014 .009246 .0824562 _cons | 2.760086 .1463391 18.86 0.000 2.473013 3.04716 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ . outreg2 using paperdataBLK2.doc, word append title("White's Racial Attitudes > Toward Black Americans") addstat(Adj. R2, e(r2_a), SER, e(rmse)) addtext(Nonli > near Effects, YES, Value Controls, NO, Interactions, NO); paperdataBLK2.doc dir : seeout . reg ln_bav eeduyrs eeduyrs2 ln_pol ln_inc age male atlanta boston black_intv > latino_intv asian_intv egal_values black_bias ln_wav if white==1, r ; Linear regression Number of obs = 1,379 F(14, 1364) = 45.48 Prob > F = 0.0000 R-squared = 0.4088 Root MSE = .19413 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  • 27. TAYLOR: EDUCATION AND RACIAL ATTITUDES 27 | Robust ln_bav | Coef. Std. Err. t P>|t| [95% Conf. Interval] -------------+---------------------------------------------------------------- eeduyrs | -.0143118 .0127742 -1.12 0.263 -.039371 .0107473 eeduyrs2 | .0001701 .0004492 0.38 0.705 -.0007112 .0010514 ln_pol | .056362 .0128186 4.40 0.000 .0312157 .0815084 ln_inc | .0025089 .0062473 0.40 0.688 -.0097465 .0147643 age | .000631 .0003678 1.72 0.086 -.0000905 .0013526 male | .0083424 .0106351 0.78 0.433 -.0125204 .0292053 atlanta | -.0015381 .0148855 -0.10 0.918 -.0307391 .0276629 boston | -.0036657 .0132431 -0.28 0.782 -.0296447 .0223132 black_intv | -.1855004 .0214945 -8.63 0.000 -.2276662 -.1433346 latino_intv | -.0575345 .0247215 -2.33 0.020 -.1060308 -.0090381 asian_intv | .0205675 .0162205 1.27 0.205 -.0112523 .0523874 egal_values | -.3022918 .0175734 -17.20 0.000 -.3367657 -.267818 black_bias | -.3598369 .1244434 -2.89 0.004 -.6039581 -.1157158 ln_wav | .1620025 .0233843 6.93 0.000 .1161295 .2078755 _cons | 2.455997 .1271279 19.32 0.000 2.206609 2.705384 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ . outreg2 using paperdataBLK2.doc, word append title("White's Racial Attitudes T > oward Black Americans") addstat(Adj. R2, e(r2_a), SER, e(rmse)) addtext(Nonlin > ear Effects, YES, Value Controls, YES, Interactions, NO); paperdataBLK2.doc dir : seeout . reg ln_bav eeduyrs eeduyrs2 ln_pol ln_inc age male atlanta boston black_intv > latino_intv asian_intv egal_values black_bias ln_wav eduxpol eduxinc if white > ==1,r; Linear regression Number of obs = 1,379 F(16, 1362) = 40.39 Prob > F = 0.0000 R-squared = 0.4091 Root MSE = .19422 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Robust ln_bav | Coef. Std. Err. t P>|t| [95% Conf. Interval] -------------+---------------------------------------------------------------- eeduyrs | -.0070416 .0226508 -0.31 0.756 -.0514758 .0373926 eeduyrs2 | .0003209 .0004887 0.66 0.512 -.0006378 .0012795 ln_pol | .0150723 .0670348 0.22 0.822 -.1164303 .1465748 ln_inc | .0216956 .0308034 0.70 0.481 -.0387316 .0821229 age | .0006419 .0003682 1.74 0.081 -.0000803 .0013642 male | .007959 .010627 0.75 0.454 -.012888 .0288061 atlanta | -.0019269 .0148856 -0.13 0.897 -.031128 .0272743 boston | -.0035091 .0132536 -0.26 0.791 -.0295087 .0224906 black_intv | -.1851498 .021484 -8.62 0.000 -.2272951 -.1430045 latino_intv | -.0579046 .024699 -2.34 0.019 -.1063569 -.0094524 asian_intv | .0198891 .016291 1.22 0.222 -.0120691 .0518472 egal_values | -.3025506 .017591 -17.20 0.000 -.3370589 -.2680423 black_bias | -.3606016 .1233586 -2.92 0.004 -.602595 -.1186083 ln_wav | .1624409 .0234082 6.94 0.000 .116521 .2083608 eduxpol | .0028531 .0044045 0.65 0.517 -.0057872 .0114933 eduxinc | -.0013675 .0020988 -0.65 0.515 -.0054848 .0027497 _cons | 2.325092 .3355714 6.93 0.000 1.666799 2.983385 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ . outreg2 using paperdataBLK2.doc, word append title("White's Racial Attitudes T > oward Black Americans") addstat(Adj. R2, e(r2_a), SER, e(rmse)) addtext(Nonlin > ear Effects, YES, Value Controls, YES, Interactions, YES); paperdataBLK2.doc
  • 28. TAYLOR: EDUCATION AND RACIAL ATTITUDES 28 dir : seeout . /* Robustness Tests & Marginal Effects at the Means */ > reg ln_bav eeduyrs eeduyrs2 ln_pol ln_inc age male black_intv latino_intv asia > n_intv boston atlanta egal_values black_bias ln_wav if white==1, r; Linear regression Number of obs = 1,379 F(14, 1364) = 45.48 Prob > F = 0.0000 R-squared = 0.4088 Root MSE = .19413 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Robust ln_bav | Coef. Std. Err. t P>|t| [95% Conf. Interval] -------------+---------------------------------------------------------------- eeduyrs | -.0143118 .0127742 -1.12 0.263 -.039371 .0107473 eeduyrs2 | .0001701 .0004492 0.38 0.705 -.0007112 .0010514 ln_pol | .056362 .0128186 4.40 0.000 .0312157 .0815084 ln_inc | .0025089 .0062473 0.40 0.688 -.0097465 .0147643 age | .000631 .0003678 1.72 0.086 -.0000905 .0013526 male | .0083424 .0106351 0.78 0.433 -.0125204 .0292053 black_intv | -.1855004 .0214945 -8.63 0.000 -.2276662 -.1433346 latino_intv | -.0575345 .0247215 -2.33 0.020 -.1060308 -.0090381 asian_intv | .0205675 .0162205 1.27 0.205 -.0112523 .0523874 boston | -.0036657 .0132431 -0.28 0.782 -.0296447 .0223132 atlanta | -.0015381 .0148855 -0.10 0.918 -.0307391 .0276629 egal_values | -.3022918 .0175734 -17.20 0.000 -.3367657 -.267818 black_bias | -.3598369 .1244434 -2.89 0.004 -.6039581 -.1157158 ln_wav | .1620025 .0233843 6.93 0.000 .1161295 .2078755 _cons | 2.455997 .1271279 19.32 0.000 2.206609 2.705384 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ . test eeduyrs eeduyrs2; ( 1) eeduyrs = 0 ( 2) eeduyrs2 = 0 F( 2, 1364) = 9.63 Prob > F = 0.0001 . di 1-chi2(2, 2*r(F)); .00006603 . estat ovtest; Ramsey RESET test using powers of the fitted values of ln_bav Ho: model has no omitted variables F(3, 1361) = 9.47 Prob > F = 0.0000 . test black_intv latino_intv asian_intv; ( 1) black_intv = 0 ( 2) latino_intv = 0 ( 3) asian_intv = 0 F( 3, 1364) = 28.19 Prob > F = 0.0000 . di 1-chi2(3, 3*r(F)); 0
  • 29. TAYLOR: EDUCATION AND RACIAL ATTITUDES 29 . test ln_inc male age atlanta boston; ( 1) ln_inc = 0 ( 2) male = 0 ( 3) age = 0 ( 4) atlanta = 0 ( 5) boston = 0 F( 5, 1364) = 0.73 Prob > F = 0.6007 . di 1-chi2(5,5*r(F)); .60054139 . reg ln_bav eeduyrs eeduyrs2 ln_pol ln_inc age male atlanta boston black_intv > latino_intv asian_intv egal_values black_bias ln_wav eduxpol eduxinc if white= > =1,r; Linear regression Number of obs = 1,379 F(16, 1362) = 40.39 Prob > F = 0.0000 R-squared = 0.4091 Root MSE = .19422 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Robust ln_bav | Coef. Std. Err. t P>|t| [95% Conf. Interval] -------------+---------------------------------------------------------------- eeduyrs | -.0070416 .0226508 -0.31 0.756 -.0514758 .0373926 eeduyrs2 | .0003209 .0004887 0.66 0.512 -.0006378 .0012795 ln_pol | .0150723 .0670348 0.22 0.822 -.1164303 .1465748 ln_inc | .0216956 .0308034 0.70 0.481 -.0387316 .0821229 age | .0006419 .0003682 1.74 0.081 -.0000803 .0013642 male | .007959 .010627 0.75 0.454 -.012888 .0288061 atlanta | -.0019269 .0148856 -0.13 0.897 -.031128 .0272743 boston | -.0035091 .0132536 -0.26 0.791 -.0295087 .0224906 black_intv | -.1851498 .021484 -8.62 0.000 -.2272951 -.1430045 latino_intv | -.0579046 .024699 -2.34 0.019 -.1063569 -.0094524 asian_intv | .0198891 .016291 1.22 0.222 -.0120691 .0518472 egal_values | -.3025506 .017591 -17.20 0.000 -.3370589 -.2680423 black_bias | -.3606016 .1233586 -2.92 0.004 -.602595 -.1186083 ln_wav | .1624409 .0234082 6.94 0.000 .116521 .2083608 eduxpol | .0028531 .0044045 0.65 0.517 -.0057872 .0114933 eduxinc | -.0013675 .0020988 -0.65 0.515 -.0054848 .0027497 _cons | 2.325092 .3355714 6.93 0.000 1.666799 2.983385 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ . test eduxpol eduxinc; ( 1) eduxpol = 0 ( 2) eduxinc = 0 F( 2, 1362) = 0.42 Prob > F = 0.6577 . di 1-chi2(2,2*r(F)); .65756783 . estat ovtest; Ramsey RESET test using powers of the fitted values of ln_bav Ho: model has no omitted variables F(3, 1359) = 9.43
  • 30. TAYLOR: EDUCATION AND RACIAL ATTITUDES 30 Prob > F = 0.0000 . reg ln_bav c.eeduyrs c.eeduyrs#c.eeduyrs ln_pol ln_inc age male black_intv la > tino_intv asian_intv boston atlanta if white==1,r; Linear regression Number of obs = 1,379 F(11, 1367) = 11.96 Prob > F = 0.0000 R-squared = 0.1102 Root MSE = .23789 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Robust ln_bav | Coef. Std. Err. t P>|t| [95% Conf. Interval] -------------+---------------------------------------------------------------- eeduyrs | -.0042171 .0172933 -0.24 0.807 -.0381415 .0297073 | c.eeduyrs#| c.eeduyrs | -.000237 .0006094 -0.39 0.697 -.0014324 .0009584 | ln_pol | .084677 .0165602 5.11 0.000 .0521908 .1171632 ln_inc | .0008011 .0077869 0.10 0.918 -.0144745 .0160768 age | .0003256 .0004152 0.78 0.433 -.0004889 .0011401 male | .0104088 .0130284 0.80 0.424 -.0151491 .0359667 black_intv | -.2148713 .0295294 -7.28 0.000 -.2727991 -.1569434 latino_intv | -.0629175 .0324002 -1.94 0.052 -.1264769 .000642 asian_intv | .0458511 .0186599 2.46 0.014 .009246 .0824562 boston | -.0221674 .0165041 -1.34 0.179 -.0545436 .0102088 atlanta | -.0314948 .0186687 -1.69 0.092 -.0681173 .0051276 _cons | 2.760086 .1463391 18.86 0.000 2.473013 3.04716 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ . margins, dydx(*) atmeans; Conditional marginal effects Number of obs = 1,379 Model VCE : Robust Expression : Linear prediction, predict() dy/dx w.r.t. : eeduyrs ln_pol ln_inc age male black_intv latino_intv asian_intv boston atlanta at : eeduyrs = 14.22915 (mean) ln_pol = 1.291399 (mean) ln_inc = 10.96906 (mean) age = 43.19217 (mean) male = .4786077 (mean) black_intv = .0833938 (mean) latino_intv = .0406091 (mean) asian_intv = .1348803 (mean) boston = .2944162 (mean) atlanta = .24438 (mean) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Delta-method | dy/dx Std. Err. t P>|t| [95% Conf. Interval] -------------+---------------------------------------------------------------- eeduyrs | -.0109613 .0028242 -3.88 0.000 -.0165016 -.005421 ln_pol | .084677 .0165602 5.11 0.000 .0521908 .1171632 ln_inc | .0008011 .0077869 0.10 0.918 -.0144745 .0160768 age | .0003256 .0004152 0.78 0.433 -.0004889 .0011401 male | .0104088 .0130284 0.80 0.424 -.0151491 .0359667 black_intv | -.2148713 .0295294 -7.28 0.000 -.2727991 -.1569434 latino_intv | -.0629175 .0324002 -1.94 0.052 -.1264769 .000642 asian_intv | .0458511 .0186599 2.46 0.014 .009246 .0824562
  • 31. TAYLOR: EDUCATION AND RACIAL ATTITUDES 31 boston | -.0221674 .0165041 -1.34 0.179 -.0545436 .0102088 atlanta | -.0314948 .0186687 -1.69 0.092 -.0681173 .0051276 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ . reg ln_bav c.eeduyrs c.eeduyrs#c.eeduyrs ln_pol ln_inc age male black_intv la > tino_intv asian_intv boston atlanta egal_values black_bias ln_wav if white==1, > r; Linear regression Number of obs = 1,379 F(14, 1364) = 45.48 Prob > F = 0.0000 R-squared = 0.4088 Root MSE = .19413 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Robust ln_bav | Coef. Std. Err. t P>|t| [95% Conf. Interval] -------------+---------------------------------------------------------------- eeduyrs | -.0143118 .0127742 -1.12 0.263 -.039371 .0107473 | c.eeduyrs#| c.eeduyrs | .0001701 .0004492 0.38 0.705 -.0007112 .0010514 | ln_pol | .056362 .0128186 4.40 0.000 .0312157 .0815084 ln_inc | .0025089 .0062473 0.40 0.688 -.0097465 .0147643 age | .000631 .0003678 1.72 0.086 -.0000905 .0013526 male | .0083424 .0106351 0.78 0.433 -.0125204 .0292053 black_intv | -.1855004 .0214945 -8.63 0.000 -.2276662 -.1433346 latino_intv | -.0575345 .0247215 -2.33 0.020 -.1060308 -.0090381 asian_intv | .0205675 .0162205 1.27 0.205 -.0112523 .0523874 boston | -.0036657 .0132431 -0.28 0.782 -.0296447 .0223132 atlanta | -.0015381 .0148855 -0.10 0.918 -.0307391 .0276629 egal_values | -.3022918 .0175734 -17.20 0.000 -.3367657 -.267818 black_bias | -.3598369 .1244434 -2.89 0.004 -.6039581 -.1157158 ln_wav | .1620025 .0233843 6.93 0.000 .1161295 .2078755 _cons | 2.455997 .1271279 19.32 0.000 2.206609 2.705384 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ . margins, dydx(*) atmeans; Conditional marginal effects Number of obs = 1,379 Model VCE : Robust Expression : Linear prediction, predict() dy/dx w.r.t. : eeduyrs ln_pol ln_inc age male black_intv latino_intv asian_intv boston atlanta egal_values black_bias ln_wav at : eeduyrs = 14.22915 (mean) ln_pol = 1.291399 (mean) ln_inc = 10.96906 (mean) age = 43.19217 (mean) male = .4786077 (mean) black_intv = .0833938 (mean) latino_intv = .0406091 (mean) asian_intv = .1348803 (mean) boston = .2944162 (mean) atlanta = .24438 (mean) egal_values = .1559101 (mean) black_bias = .0058013 (mean) ln_wav = 2.502901 (mean) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Delta-method | dy/dx Std. Err. t P>|t| [95% Conf. Interval]
  • 32. TAYLOR: EDUCATION AND RACIAL ATTITUDES 32 -------------+---------------------------------------------------------------- eeduyrs | -.0094704 .0021928 -4.32 0.000 -.0137719 -.0051688 ln_pol | .056362 .0128186 4.40 0.000 .0312157 .0815084 ln_inc | .0025089 .0062473 0.40 0.688 -.0097465 .0147643 age | .000631 .0003678 1.72 0.086 -.0000905 .0013526 male | .0083424 .0106351 0.78 0.433 -.0125204 .0292053 black_intv | -.1855004 .0214945 -8.63 0.000 -.2276662 -.1433346 latino_intv | -.0575345 .0247215 -2.33 0.020 -.1060308 -.0090381 asian_intv | .0205675 .0162205 1.27 0.205 -.0112523 .0523874 boston | -.0036657 .0132431 -0.28 0.782 -.0296447 .0223132 atlanta | -.0015381 .0148855 -0.10 0.918 -.0307391 .0276629 egal_values | -.3022918 .0175734 -17.20 0.000 -.3367657 -.267818 black_bias | -.3598369 .1244434 -2.89 0.004 -.6039581 -.1157158 ln_wav | .1620025 .0233843 6.93 0.000 .1161295 .2078755 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ . reg ln_bav c.eeduyrs c.eeduyrs#c.eeduyrs c.eeduyrs#c.ln_pol c.eeduyrs#c.ln_in > c age male black_intv latino_intv asian_intv boston atlanta egal_values black_ > bias ln_wav if white==1, r; Linear regression Number of obs = 1,379 F(14, 1364) = 45.64 Prob > F = 0.0000 R-squared = 0.4089 Root MSE = .19411 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Robust ln_bav | Coef. Std. Err. t P>|t| [95% Conf. Interval] -------------+---------------------------------------------------------------- eeduyrs | -.0206097 .0134449 -1.53 0.126 -.0469845 .0057652 | c.eeduyrs#| c.eeduyrs | .0001819 .0004514 0.40 0.687 -.0007035 .0010674 | c.eeduyrs#| c.ln_pol | .0038634 .000844 4.58 0.000 .0022077 .005519 | c.eeduyrs#| c.ln_inc | .0001277 .0004275 0.30 0.765 -.000711 .0009663 | age | .0006369 .0003674 1.73 0.083 -.0000839 .0013576 male | .0081117 .0106432 0.76 0.446 -.0127671 .0289905 black_intv | -.1857494 .0214466 -8.66 0.000 -.2278214 -.1436775 latino_intv | -.0586252 .0246988 -2.37 0.018 -.107077 -.0101735 asian_intv | .0205203 .0162175 1.27 0.206 -.0112936 .0523343 boston | -.0037176 .0132623 -0.28 0.779 -.0297344 .0222992 atlanta | -.0014695 .0148739 -0.10 0.921 -.0306477 .0277087 egal_values | -.3024985 .017642 -17.15 0.000 -.3371068 -.2678902 black_bias | -.3579279 .1230089 -2.91 0.004 -.5992351 -.1166206 ln_wav | .1621123 .0233548 6.94 0.000 .116297 .2079276 _cons | 2.552463 .1108456 23.03 0.000 2.335017 2.76991 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ . margins, dydx(*) atmeans; Conditional marginal effects Number of obs = 1,379 Model VCE : Robust Expression : Linear prediction, predict() dy/dx w.r.t. : eeduyrs ln_pol ln_inc age male black_intv latino_intv asian_intv boston atlanta egal_values black_bias ln_wav at : eeduyrs = 14.22915 (mean)
  • 33. TAYLOR: EDUCATION AND RACIAL ATTITUDES 33 ln_pol = 1.291399 (mean) ln_inc = 10.96906 (mean) age = 43.19217 (mean) male = .4786077 (mean) black_intv = .0833938 (mean) latino_intv = .0406091 (mean) asian_intv = .1348803 (mean) boston = .2944162 (mean) atlanta = .24438 (mean) egal_values = .1559101 (mean) black_bias = .0058013 (mean) ln_wav = 2.502901 (mean) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Delta-method | dy/dx Std. Err. t P>|t| [95% Conf. Interval] -------------+---------------------------------------------------------------- eeduyrs | -.0090428 .0021989 -4.11 0.000 -.0133564 -.0047292 ln_pol | .0549722 .012009 4.58 0.000 .0314141 .0785304 ln_inc | .0018164 .0060833 0.30 0.765 -.0101173 .0137501 age | .0006369 .0003674 1.73 0.083 -.0000839 .0013576 male | .0081117 .0106432 0.76 0.446 -.0127671 .0289905 black_intv | -.1857494 .0214466 -8.66 0.000 -.2278214 -.1436775 latino_intv | -.0586252 .0246988 -2.37 0.018 -.107077 -.0101735 asian_intv | .0205203 .0162175 1.27 0.206 -.0112936 .0523343 boston | -.0037176 .0132623 -0.28 0.779 -.0297344 .0222992 atlanta | -.0014695 .0148739 -0.10 0.921 -.0306477 .0277087 egal_values | -.3024985 .017642 -17.15 0.000 -.3371068 -.2678902 black_bias | -.3579279 .1230089 -2.91 0.004 -.5992351 -.1166206 ln_wav | .1621123 .0233548 6.94 0.000 .116297 .2079276 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ . /* White's Views of Latino Americans */ > reg amval_lat eeduyrs ln_pol ln_inc age male atlanta boston black_intv latino_ > intv asian_intv if white==1, r ; Linear regression Number of obs = 1,379 F(10, 1368) = 11.24 Prob > F = 0.0000 R-squared = 0.0796 Root MSE = 3.5844 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Robust amval_lat | Coef. Std. Err. t P>|t| [95% Conf. Interval] -------------+---------------------------------------------------------------- eeduyrs | -.2305773 .0405318 -5.69 0.000 -.3100887 -.151066 ln_pol | .9811717 .2402009 4.08 0.000 .5099697 1.452374 ln_inc | -.0309076 .1138037 -0.27 0.786 -.2541563 .1923411 age | .0001079 .0064894 0.02 0.987 -.0126223 .0128381 male | -.5881477 .1957894 -3.00 0.003 -.9722276 -.2040677 atlanta | -.8652753 .2655602 -3.26 0.001 -1.386225 -.344326 boston | .4556814 .2565617 1.78 0.076 -.0476156 .9589783 black_intv | -.964181 .3852557 -2.50 0.012 -1.719937 -.2084251 latino_intv | -1.755025 .510473 -3.44 0.001 -2.75642 -.7536304 asian_intv | .0740999 .2920474 0.25 0.800 -.4988094 .6470093 _cons | 18.8668 1.301646 14.49 0.000 16.31337 21.42024 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ . outreg2 using paperdataLAT.doc, word replace title("White's Racial Attitudes T > oward Latino Americans") addstat(Adj. R2, e(r2_a), SER, e(rmse)) addtext(Nonli > near Effects, NO, Value Controls, NO, Interactions, NO); paperdataLAT.doc
  • 34. TAYLOR: EDUCATION AND RACIAL ATTITUDES 34 dir : seeout . reg ln_lav eeduyrs eeduyrs2 ln_pol ln_inc age male boston atlanta black_intv > latino_intv asian_intv if white==1, r; Linear regression Number of obs = 1,379 F(11, 1367) = 8.47 Prob > F = 0.0000 R-squared = 0.0742 Root MSE = .24434 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Robust ln_lav | Coef. Std. Err. t P>|t| [95% Conf. Interval] -------------+---------------------------------------------------------------- eeduyrs | -.0019483 .0161678 -0.12 0.904 -.0336646 .029768 eeduyrs2 | -.0004216 .0005793 -0.73 0.467 -.0015579 .0007148 ln_pol | .0698186 .0176936 3.95 0.000 .0351091 .1045282 ln_inc | -.0003609 .0077688 -0.05 0.963 -.0156011 .0148792 age | .0000461 .0004216 0.11 0.913 -.0007811 .0008732 male | -.0369887 .0134602 -2.75 0.006 -.0633936 -.0105837 boston | .0295119 .0173107 1.70 0.088 -.0044465 .0634703 atlanta | -.0588286 .0191778 -3.07 0.002 -.0964497 -.0212076 black_intv | -.0696706 .0289584 -2.41 0.016 -.1264784 -.0128628 latino_intv | -.1124735 .035482 -3.17 0.002 -.1820787 -.0428684 asian_intv | .0128365 .0191413 0.67 0.503 -.0247131 .0503861 _cons | 2.803708 .1418912 19.76 0.000 2.52536 3.082056 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ . outreg2 using paperdataLAT.doc, word append title("White's Racial Attitudes T > oward Latino Americans") addstat(Adj. R2, e(r2_a), SER, e(rmse)) addtext(Nonli > near Effects, YES, Value Controls, NO, Interactions, NO); paperdataLAT.doc dir : seeout . reg ln_lav eeduyrs eeduyrs2 ln_pol ln_inc age male atlanta boston black_intv > latino_intv asian_intv egal_values latino_bias ln_wav if white==1, r ; Linear regression Number of obs = 1,379 F(14, 1364) = 58.44 Prob > F = 0.0000 R-squared = 0.3907 Root MSE = .19843 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Robust ln_lav | Coef. Std. Err. t P>|t| [95% Conf. Interval] -------------+---------------------------------------------------------------- eeduyrs | -.0141643 .0137772 -1.03 0.304 -.041191 .0128624 eeduyrs2 | .0000482 .0004887 0.10 0.921 -.0009106 .001007 ln_pol | .0322219 .0132501 2.43 0.015 .0062291 .0582147 ln_inc | .0004378 .0063223 0.07 0.945 -.0119647 .0128402 age | .000335 .0003607 0.93 0.353 -.0003725 .0010425 male | -.0409421 .0108171 -3.78 0.000 -.0621621 -.0197221 atlanta | -.027721 .0151514 -1.83 0.068 -.0574436 .0020016 boston | .0431014 .0137736 3.13 0.002 .0160817 .0701211 black_intv | -.0354013 .0220568 -1.61 0.109 -.0786703 .0078677 latino_intv | -.1113303 .0294962 -3.77 0.000 -.1691931 -.0534675 asian_intv | -.0095162 .0165906 -0.57 0.566 -.0420621 .0230296 egal_values | -.3201048 .0178018 -17.98 0.000 -.3550266 -.2851829 latino_bias | -.8644483 .082693 -10.45 0.000 -1.026668 -.702229 ln_wav | .1172083 .0229186 5.11 0.000 .0722488 .1621678 _cons | 2.656129 .1315448 20.19 0.000 2.398077 2.914181
  • 35. TAYLOR: EDUCATION AND RACIAL ATTITUDES 35 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ . outreg2 using paperdataLAT.doc, word append title("White's Racial Attitudes To > ward Latino Americans") addstat(Adj. R2, e(r2_a), SER, e(rmse)) addtext(Nonlin > ear Effects, YES, Value Controls, YES, Interactions, NO); paperdataLAT.doc dir : seeout . reg ln_lav eeduyrs eeduyrs2 ln_pol ln_inc age male atlanta boston black_intv > latino_intv asian_intv egal_values latino_bias ln_wav eduxpol eduxinc if whit > e==1,r; Linear regression Number of obs = 1,379 F(16, 1362) = 52.46 Prob > F = 0.0000 R-squared = 0.3916 Root MSE = .19844 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Robust ln_lav | Coef. Std. Err. t P>|t| [95% Conf. Interval] -------------+---------------------------------------------------------------- eeduyrs | -.0282107 .0259823 -1.09 0.278 -.0791805 .0227591 eeduyrs2 | .0000247 .0005057 0.05 0.961 -.0009673 .0010168 ln_pol | -.0553469 .0675619 -0.82 0.413 -.1878835 .0771898 ln_inc | -.0089988 .0334685 -0.27 0.788 -.0746542 .0566567 age | .0003405 .0003606 0.94 0.345 -.0003669 .001048 male | -.0412942 .0108316 -3.81 0.000 -.0625427 -.0200457 atlanta | -.0276284 .0151662 -1.82 0.069 -.05738 .0021232 boston | .043339 .0137762 3.15 0.002 .0163141 .0703639 black_intv | -.0352992 .0219977 -1.60 0.109 -.0784523 .0078538 latino_intv | -.1121999 .0295926 -3.79 0.000 -.1702519 -.0541478 asian_intv | -.0095109 .0166532 -0.57 0.568 -.0421796 .0231578 egal_values | -.3201045 .01782 -17.96 0.000 -.3550622 -.2851468 latino_bias | -.8662062 .0840069 -10.31 0.000 -1.031003 -.7014092 ln_wav | .1173134 .0229367 5.11 0.000 .0723184 .1623084 eduxpol | .0060444 .0045317 1.33 0.182 -.0028454 .0149342 eduxinc | .0006796 .0023365 0.29 0.771 -.003904 .0052632 _cons | 2.85997 .3676552 7.78 0.000 2.138738 3.581202 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ . outreg2 using paperdataLAT.doc, word append title("White's Racial Attitudes To > ward Latino Americans") addstat(Adj. R2, e(r2_a), SER, e(rmse)) addtext(Nonlin > ear Effects, YES, Value Controls, YES, Interactions, YES); paperdataLAT.doc dir : seeout . /* Robustness Tests & Marginal Effects at the Means */ > reg ln_lav eeduyrs eeduyrs2 ln_pol ln_inc age male black_intv latino_intv asia > n_intv boston atlanta egal_values latino_bias ln_wav if white==1, r; Linear regression Number of obs = 1,379 F(14, 1364) = 58.44 Prob > F = 0.0000 R-squared = 0.3907 Root MSE = .19843 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Robust ln_lav | Coef. Std. Err. t P>|t| [95% Conf. Interval] -------------+---------------------------------------------------------------- eeduyrs | -.0141643 .0137772 -1.03 0.304 -.041191 .0128624 eeduyrs2 | .0000482 .0004887 0.10 0.921 -.0009106 .001007
  • 36. TAYLOR: EDUCATION AND RACIAL ATTITUDES 36 ln_pol | .0322219 .0132501 2.43 0.015 .0062291 .0582147 ln_inc | .0004378 .0063223 0.07 0.945 -.0119647 .0128402 age | .000335 .0003607 0.93 0.353 -.0003725 .0010425 male | -.0409421 .0108171 -3.78 0.000 -.0621621 -.0197221 black_intv | -.0354013 .0220568 -1.61 0.109 -.0786703 .0078677 latino_intv | -.1113303 .0294962 -3.77 0.000 -.1691931 -.0534675 asian_intv | -.0095162 .0165906 -0.57 0.566 -.0420621 .0230296 boston | .0431014 .0137736 3.13 0.002 .0160817 .0701211 atlanta | -.027721 .0151514 -1.83 0.068 -.0574436 .0020016 egal_values | -.3201048 .0178018 -17.98 0.000 -.3550266 -.2851829 latino_bias | -.8644483 .082693 -10.45 0.000 -1.026668 -.702229 ln_wav | .1172083 .0229186 5.11 0.000 .0722488 .1621678 _cons | 2.656129 .1315448 20.19 0.000 2.398077 2.914181 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ . test eeduyrs eeduyrs2; ( 1) eeduyrs = 0 ( 2) eeduyrs2 = 0 F( 2, 1364) = 17.07 Prob > F = 0.0000 . di 1-chi2(2, 2*r(F)); 3.877e-08 . estat ovtest; Ramsey RESET test using powers of the fitted values of ln_lav Ho: model has no omitted variables F(3, 1361) = 1.08 Prob > F = 0.3548 . test black_intv latino_intv asian_intv; ( 1) black_intv = 0 ( 2) latino_intv = 0 ( 3) asian_intv = 0 F( 3, 1364) = 5.26 Prob > F = 0.0013 . di 1-chi2(3, 3*r(F)); .00125382 . test atlanta boston; ( 1) atlanta = 0 ( 2) boston = 0 F( 2, 1364) = 10.79 Prob > F = 0.0000 . di 1-chi2(5,5*r(F)); 2.135e-10 . reg ln_lav eeduyrs eeduyrs2 ln_pol ln_inc age male atlanta boston black_intv > latino_intv asian_intv egal_values latino_bias ln_wav eduxpol eduxinc if white > ==1,r; Linear regression Number of obs = 1,379 F(16, 1362) = 52.46 Prob > F = 0.0000
  • 37. TAYLOR: EDUCATION AND RACIAL ATTITUDES 37 R-squared = 0.3916 Root MSE = .19844 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Robust ln_lav | Coef. Std. Err. t P>|t| [95% Conf. Interval] -------------+---------------------------------------------------------------- eeduyrs | -.0282107 .0259823 -1.09 0.278 -.0791805 .0227591 eeduyrs2 | .0000247 .0005057 0.05 0.961 -.0009673 .0010168 ln_pol | -.0553469 .0675619 -0.82 0.413 -.1878835 .0771898 ln_inc | -.0089988 .0334685 -0.27 0.788 -.0746542 .0566567 age | .0003405 .0003606 0.94 0.345 -.0003669 .001048 male | -.0412942 .0108316 -3.81 0.000 -.0625427 -.0200457 atlanta | -.0276284 .0151662 -1.82 0.069 -.05738 .0021232 boston | .043339 .0137762 3.15 0.002 .0163141 .0703639 black_intv | -.0352992 .0219977 -1.60 0.109 -.0784523 .0078538 latino_intv | -.1121999 .0295926 -3.79 0.000 -.1702519 -.0541478 asian_intv | -.0095109 .0166532 -0.57 0.568 -.0421796 .0231578 egal_values | -.3201045 .01782 -17.96 0.000 -.3550622 -.2851468 latino_bias | -.8662062 .0840069 -10.31 0.000 -1.031003 -.7014092 ln_wav | .1173134 .0229367 5.11 0.000 .0723184 .1623084 eduxpol | .0060444 .0045317 1.33 0.182 -.0028454 .0149342 eduxinc | .0006796 .0023365 0.29 0.771 -.003904 .0052632 _cons | 2.85997 .3676552 7.78 0.000 2.138738 3.581202 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ . test eduxpol eduxinc; ( 1) eduxpol = 0 ( 2) eduxinc = 0 F( 2, 1362) = 0.95 Prob > F = 0.3866 . di 1-chi2(2,2*r(F)); .38633586 . estat ovtest; Ramsey RESET test using powers of the fitted values of ln_lav Ho: model has no omitted variables F(3, 1359) = 0.52 Prob > F = 0.6666 . reg ln_lav c.eeduyrs c.eeduyrs#c.eeduyrs ln_pol ln_inc age male black_intv la > tino_intv asian_intv boston atlanta if white==1,r; Linear regression Number of obs = 1,379 F(11, 1367) = 8.47 Prob > F = 0.0000 R-squared = 0.0742 Root MSE = .24434 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Robust ln_lav | Coef. Std. Err. t P>|t| [95% Conf. Interval] -------------+---------------------------------------------------------------- eeduyrs | -.0019483 .0161678 -0.12 0.904 -.0336646 .029768 | c.eeduyrs#| c.eeduyrs | -.0004216 .0005793 -0.73 0.467 -.0015579 .0007148 | ln_pol | .0698186 .0176936 3.95 0.000 .0351091 .1045282
  • 38. TAYLOR: EDUCATION AND RACIAL ATTITUDES 38 ln_inc | -.0003609 .0077688 -0.05 0.963 -.0156011 .0148792 age | .0000461 .0004216 0.11 0.913 -.0007811 .0008732 male | -.0369887 .0134602 -2.75 0.006 -.0633936 -.0105837 black_intv | -.0696706 .0289584 -2.41 0.016 -.1264784 -.0128628 latino_intv | -.1124735 .035482 -3.17 0.002 -.1820787 -.0428684 asian_intv | .0128365 .0191413 0.67 0.503 -.0247131 .0503861 boston | .0295119 .0173107 1.70 0.088 -.0044465 .0634703 atlanta | -.0588286 .0191778 -3.07 0.002 -.0964497 -.0212076 _cons | 2.803708 .1418912 19.76 0.000 2.52536 3.082056 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ . margins, dydx(*) atmeans; Conditional marginal effects Number of obs = 1,379 Model VCE : Robust Expression : Linear prediction, predict() dy/dx w.r.t. : eeduyrs ln_pol ln_inc age male black_intv latino_intv asian_intv boston atlanta at : eeduyrs = 14.22915 (mean) ln_pol = 1.291399 (mean) ln_inc = 10.96906 (mean) age = 43.19217 (mean) male = .4786077 (mean) black_intv = .0833938 (mean) latino_intv = .0406091 (mean) asian_intv = .1348803 (mean) boston = .2944162 (mean) atlanta = .24438 (mean) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Delta-method | dy/dx Std. Err. t P>|t| [95% Conf. Interval] -------------+---------------------------------------------------------------- eeduyrs | -.0139457 .0028905 -4.82 0.000 -.019616 -.0082754 ln_pol | .0698186 .0176936 3.95 0.000 .0351091 .1045282 ln_inc | -.0003609 .0077688 -0.05 0.963 -.0156011 .0148792 age | .0000461 .0004216 0.11 0.913 -.0007811 .0008732 male | -.0369887 .0134602 -2.75 0.006 -.0633936 -.0105837 black_intv | -.0696706 .0289584 -2.41 0.016 -.1264784 -.0128628 latino_intv | -.1124735 .035482 -3.17 0.002 -.1820787 -.0428684 asian_intv | .0128365 .0191413 0.67 0.503 -.0247131 .0503861 boston | .0295119 .0173107 1.70 0.088 -.0044465 .0634703 atlanta | -.0588286 .0191778 -3.07 0.002 -.0964497 -.0212076 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ . reg ln_lav c.eeduyrs c.eeduyrs#c.eeduyrs ln_pol ln_inc age male black_intv la > tino_intv asian_intv boston atlanta egal_values latino_bias ln_wav if white==1 > , r; Linear regression Number of obs = 1,379 F(14, 1364) = 58.44 Prob > F = 0.0000 R-squared = 0.3907 Root MSE = .19843 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Robust ln_lav | Coef. Std. Err. t P>|t| [95% Conf. Interval] -------------+---------------------------------------------------------------- eeduyrs | -.0141643 .0137772 -1.03 0.304 -.041191 .0128624 | c.eeduyrs#|
  • 39. TAYLOR: EDUCATION AND RACIAL ATTITUDES 39 c.eeduyrs | .0000482 .0004887 0.10 0.921 -.0009106 .001007 | ln_pol | .0322219 .0132501 2.43 0.015 .0062291 .0582147 ln_inc | .0004378 .0063223 0.07 0.945 -.0119647 .0128402 age | .000335 .0003607 0.93 0.353 -.0003725 .0010425 male | -.0409421 .0108171 -3.78 0.000 -.0621621 -.0197221 black_intv | -.0354013 .0220568 -1.61 0.109 -.0786703 .0078677 latino_intv | -.1113303 .0294962 -3.77 0.000 -.1691931 -.0534675 asian_intv | -.0095162 .0165906 -0.57 0.566 -.0420621 .0230296 boston | .0431014 .0137736 3.13 0.002 .0160817 .0701211 atlanta | -.027721 .0151514 -1.83 0.068 -.0574436 .0020016 egal_values | -.3201048 .0178018 -17.98 0.000 -.3550266 -.2851829 latino_bias | -.8644483 .082693 -10.45 0.000 -1.026668 -.702229 ln_wav | .1172083 .0229186 5.11 0.000 .0722488 .1621678 _cons | 2.656129 .1315448 20.19 0.000 2.398077 2.914181 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ . margins, dydx(*) atmeans; Conditional marginal effects Number of obs = 1,379 Model VCE : Robust Expression : Linear prediction, predict() dy/dx w.r.t. : eeduyrs ln_pol ln_inc age male black_intv latino_intv asian_intv boston atlanta egal_values latino_bias ln_wav at : eeduyrs = 14.22915 (mean) ln_pol = 1.291399 (mean) ln_inc = 10.96906 (mean) age = 43.19217 (mean) male = .4786077 (mean) black_intv = .0833938 (mean) latino_intv = .0406091 (mean) asian_intv = .1348803 (mean) boston = .2944162 (mean) atlanta = .24438 (mean) egal_values = .1559101 (mean) latino_bias = .0029007 (mean) ln_wav = 2.502901 (mean) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Delta-method | dy/dx Std. Err. t P>|t| [95% Conf. Interval] -------------+---------------------------------------------------------------- eeduyrs | -.0127931 .0022167 -5.77 0.000 -.0171417 -.0084445 ln_pol | .0322219 .0132501 2.43 0.015 .0062291 .0582147 ln_inc | .0004378 .0063223 0.07 0.945 -.0119647 .0128402 age | .000335 .0003607 0.93 0.353 -.0003725 .0010425 male | -.0409421 .0108171 -3.78 0.000 -.0621621 -.0197221 black_intv | -.0354013 .0220568 -1.61 0.109 -.0786703 .0078677 latino_intv | -.1113303 .0294962 -3.77 0.000 -.1691931 -.0534675 asian_intv | -.0095162 .0165906 -0.57 0.566 -.0420621 .0230296 boston | .0431014 .0137736 3.13 0.002 .0160817 .0701211 atlanta | -.027721 .0151514 -1.83 0.068 -.0574436 .0020016 egal_values | -.3201048 .0178018 -17.98 0.000 -.3550266 -.2851829 latino_bias | -.8644483 .082693 -10.45 0.000 -1.026668 -.702229 ln_wav | .1172083 .0229186 5.11 0.000 .0722488 .1621678 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ . reg ln_lav c.eeduyrs c.eeduyrs#c.eeduyrs c.eeduyrs#c.ln_pol c.eeduyrs#c.ln_in > c age male black_intv latino_intv asian_intv boston atlanta egal_values latino > _bias ln_wav if white==1, r; Linear regression Number of obs = 1,379
  • 40. TAYLOR: EDUCATION AND RACIAL ATTITUDES 40 F(14, 1364) = 58.43 Prob > F = 0.0000 R-squared = 0.3912 Root MSE = .19835 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Robust ln_lav | Coef. Std. Err. t P>|t| [95% Conf. Interval] -------------+---------------------------------------------------------------- eeduyrs | -.0181696 .014414 -1.26 0.208 -.0464456 .0101064 | c.eeduyrs#| c.eeduyrs | .0000692 .0004921 0.14 0.888 -.0008962 .0010346 | c.eeduyrs#| c.ln_pol | .0023536 .0008891 2.65 0.008 .0006094 .0040978 | c.eeduyrs#| c.ln_inc | .0000524 .0004401 0.12 0.905 -.0008108 .0009157 | age | .0003328 .0003596 0.93 0.355 -.0003726 .0010383 male | -.0411881 .0108176 -3.81 0.000 -.062409 -.0199671 black_intv | -.0352243 .0220308 -1.60 0.110 -.0784422 .0079935 latino_intv | -.1115927 .0294772 -3.79 0.000 -.1694182 -.0537672 asian_intv | -.0099009 .0165832 -0.60 0.551 -.0424323 .0226305 boston | .0432701 .0137858 3.14 0.002 .0162265 .0703138 atlanta | -.0280599 .0151149 -1.86 0.064 -.0577109 .0015912 egal_values | -.3198157 .0178411 -17.93 0.000 -.3548148 -.2848167 latino_bias | -.8639942 .0832608 -10.38 0.000 -1.027327 -.700661 ln_wav | .1175451 .0229036 5.13 0.000 .0726151 .1624751 _cons | 2.70329 .1137674 23.76 0.000 2.480112 2.926468 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ . margins, dydx(*) atmeans; Conditional marginal effects Number of obs = 1,379 Model VCE : Robust Expression : Linear prediction, predict() dy/dx w.r.t. : eeduyrs ln_pol ln_inc age male black_intv latino_intv asian_intv boston atlanta egal_values latino_bias ln_wav at : eeduyrs = 14.22915 (mean) ln_pol = 1.291399 (mean) ln_inc = 10.96906 (mean) age = 43.19217 (mean) male = .4786077 (mean) black_intv = .0833938 (mean) latino_intv = .0406091 (mean) asian_intv = .1348803 (mean) boston = .2944162 (mean) atlanta = .24438 (mean) egal_values = .1559101 (mean) latino_bias = .0029007 (mean) ln_wav = 2.502901 (mean) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Delta-method | dy/dx Std. Err. t P>|t| [95% Conf. Interval] -------------+---------------------------------------------------------------- eeduyrs | -.0125854 .002236 -5.63 0.000 -.0169718 -.0081991 ln_pol | .0334895 .0126516 2.65 0.008 .0086708 .0583082 ln_inc | .0007459 .0062615 0.12 0.905 -.0115374 .0130292 age | .0003328 .0003596 0.93 0.355 -.0003726 .0010383
  • 41. TAYLOR: EDUCATION AND RACIAL ATTITUDES 41 male | -.0411881 .0108176 -3.81 0.000 -.062409 -.0199671 black_intv | -.0352243 .0220308 -1.60 0.110 -.0784422 .0079935 latino_intv | -.1115927 .0294772 -3.79 0.000 -.1694182 -.0537672 asian_intv | -.0099009 .0165832 -0.60 0.551 -.0424323 .0226305 boston | .0432701 .0137858 3.14 0.002 .0162265 .0703138 atlanta | -.0280599 .0151149 -1.86 0.064 -.0577109 .0015912 egal_values | -.3198157 .0178411 -17.93 0.000 -.3548148 -.2848167 latino_bias | -.8639942 .0832608 -10.38 0.000 -1.027327 -.700661 ln_wav | .1175451 .0229036 5.13 0.000 .0726151 .1624751 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ . /* White's Views of Asian Americans */ > reg amval_asn eeduyrs ln_pol ln_inc age male atlanta boston black_intv latino_ > intv asian_intv if white==1, r ; Linear regression Number of obs = 1,379 F(10, 1368) = 6.02 Prob > F = 0.0000 R-squared = 0.0434 Root MSE = 3.3017 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Robust amval_asn | Coef. Std. Err. t P>|t| [95% Conf. Interval] -------------+---------------------------------------------------------------- eeduyrs | -.0892102 .0365666 -2.44 0.015 -.1609428 -.0174775 ln_pol | .1763173 .2091389 0.84 0.399 -.2339504 .586585 ln_inc | -.1533149 .1062302 -1.44 0.149 -.3617067 .0550768 age | -.0009424 .0058293 -0.16 0.872 -.0123777 .0104929 male | -.0906839 .1779444 -0.51 0.610 -.4397573 .2583895 atlanta | -.1807948 .240583 -0.75 0.452 -.6527463 .2911568 boston | 1.052092 .2279771 4.61 0.000 .6048693 1.499314 black_intv | 1.220217 .3450575 3.54 0.000 .543318 1.897116 latino_intv | -.141744 .4698157 -0.30 0.763 -1.063381 .7798933 asian_intv | -.1218378 .2817998 -0.43 0.666 -.6746444 .4309687 _cons | 15.91125 1.142979 13.92 0.000 13.66907 18.15343 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ . outreg2 using paperdataASN.doc, word replace title("White's Racial Attitudes T > oward Asian Americans") addstat(Adj. R2, e(r2_a), SER, e(rmse)) addtext(Nonlin > ear Effects, NO, Value Controls, NO, Interactions, NO); paperdataASN.doc dir : seeout . reg ln_aav eeduyrs eeduyrs2 ln_pol ln_inc age male boston atlanta black_intv > latino_intv asian_intv if white==1, r; Linear regression Number of obs = 1,379 F(11, 1367) = 4.47 Prob > F = 0.0000 R-squared = 0.0331 Root MSE = .2726 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Robust ln_aav | Coef. Std. Err. t P>|t| [95% Conf. Interval] -------------+---------------------------------------------------------------- eeduyrs | -.003105 .0171592 -0.18 0.856 -.0367662 .0305561 eeduyrs2 | -.0000998 .0006121 -0.16 0.870 -.0013007 .001101 ln_pol | .0094743 .0171745 0.55 0.581 -.0242169 .0431655 ln_inc | -.0110652 .0088773 -1.25 0.213 -.0284798 .0063494 age | -.00002 .0004718 -0.04 0.966 -.0009454 .0009055 male | -.0031181 .014837 -0.21 0.834 -.0322239 .0259877
  • 42. TAYLOR: EDUCATION AND RACIAL ATTITUDES 42 boston | .0751175 .0185686 4.05 0.000 .0386914 .1115436 atlanta | -.0184219 .0202405 -0.91 0.363 -.0581277 .021284 black_intv | .0884109 .0281928 3.14 0.002 .0331051 .1437167 latino_intv | -.010889 .0390885 -0.28 0.781 -.087569 .065791 asian_intv | -.0104676 .0239641 -0.44 0.662 -.057478 .0365428 _cons | 2.71721 .1478972 18.37 0.000 2.42708 3.00734 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ . outreg2 using paperdataASN.doc, word append title("White's Racial Attitudes T > oward Asian Americans") addstat(Adj. R2, e(r2_a), SER, e(rmse)) addtext(Nonlin > ear Effects, YES, Value Controls, NO, Interactions, NO); paperdataASN.doc dir : seeout . reg ln_aav eeduyrs eeduyrs2 ln_pol ln_inc age male atlanta boston black_intv > latino_intv asian_intv egal_values asian_bias ln_wav if white==1, r ; Linear regression Number of obs = 1,379 F(14, 1364) = 46.69 Prob > F = 0.0000 R-squared = 0.3657 Root MSE = .22103 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Robust ln_aav | Coef. Std. Err. t P>|t| [95% Conf. Interval] -------------+---------------------------------------------------------------- eeduyrs | -.0146247 .0162218 -0.90 0.367 -.046447 .0171976 eeduyrs2 | .0002482 .0005628 0.44 0.659 -.0008558 .0013523 ln_pol | -.0021105 .0147194 -0.14 0.886 -.0309857 .0267647 ln_inc | -.0085991 .0072587 -1.18 0.236 -.0228385 .0056404 age | .0008141 .0004038 2.02 0.044 .000022 .0016061 male | -.0163225 .0118202 -1.38 0.168 -.0395101 .0068652 atlanta | .0176392 .0159958 1.10 0.270 -.0137399 .0490183 boston | .0759989 .015154 5.02 0.000 .0462711 .1057266 black_intv | .0988083 .0226284 4.37 0.000 .0544181 .1431985 latino_intv | -.0223923 .0316936 -0.71 0.480 -.0845657 .0397812 asian_intv | -.0580173 .0196254 -2.96 0.003 -.0965166 -.019518 egal_values | -.196682 .0197411 -9.96 0.000 -.2354082 -.1579559 asian_bias | -.3274019 .083064 -3.94 0.000 -.490349 -.1644548 ln_wav | .3890374 .0283263 13.73 0.000 .3334696 .4446053 _cons | 1.825471 .146685 12.44 0.000 1.537719 2.113224 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ . outreg2 using paperdataASN.doc, word append title("White's Racial Attitudes To > ward Asian Americans") addstat(Adj. R2, e(r2_a), SER, e(rmse)) addtext(Nonline > ar Effects, YES, Value Controls, YES, Interactions, NO); paperdataASN.doc dir : seeout . reg ln_aav eeduyrs eeduyrs2 ln_pol ln_inc age male atlanta boston black_intv > latino_intv asian_intv egal_values asian_bias ln_wav eduxpol eduxinc if white > ==1,r; Linear regression Number of obs = 1,379 F(16, 1362) = 41.85 Prob > F = 0.0000 R-squared = 0.3696 Root MSE = .22052 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Robust ln_aav | Coef. Std. Err. t P>|t| [95% Conf. Interval]
  • 43. TAYLOR: EDUCATION AND RACIAL ATTITUDES 43 -------------+---------------------------------------------------------------- eeduyrs | -.0461544 .025365 -1.82 0.069 -.0959131 .0036042 eeduyrs2 | -.0003504 .0006768 -0.52 0.605 -.0016781 .0009773 ln_pol | .1443738 .0779041 1.85 0.064 -.0084512 .2971988 ln_inc | -.0863531 .0371963 -2.32 0.020 -.1593213 -.0133849 age | .0007712 .0004021 1.92 0.055 -.0000176 .00156 male | -.0149787 .0117899 -1.27 0.204 -.038107 .0081495 atlanta | .0192029 .0159957 1.20 0.230 -.0121761 .0505818 boston | .0754541 .0151109 4.99 0.000 .0458109 .1050972 black_intv | .0975473 .0227713 4.28 0.000 .0528767 .1422179 latino_intv | -.0210222 .0319064 -0.66 0.510 -.0836132 .0415687 asian_intv | -.0553407 .0195457 -2.83 0.005 -.0936837 -.0169977 egal_values | -.1955101 .0197248 -9.91 0.000 -.2342044 -.1568158 asian_bias | -.3328865 .0821285 -4.05 0.000 -.4939986 -.1717744 ln_wav | .3870917 .0283565 13.65 0.000 .3314645 .442719 eduxpol | -.0101222 .0051824 -1.95 0.051 -.0202886 .0000441 eduxinc | .0055422 .0025761 2.15 0.032 .0004887 .0105957 _cons | 2.383898 .3628434 6.57 0.000 1.672106 3.095691 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ . outreg2 using paperdataASN.doc, word append title("White's Racial Attitudes To > ward Asian Americans") addstat(Adj. R2, e(r2_a), SER, e(rmse)) addtext(Nonline > ar Effects, YES, Value Controls, YES, Interactions, YES); paperdataASN.doc dir : seeout . /* Robustness Tests & Marginal Effects at the Means */ > reg ln_aav eeduyrs eeduyrs2 ln_pol ln_inc age male black_intv latino_intv asia > n_intv boston atlanta egal_values asian_bias ln_wav if white==1, r; Linear regression Number of obs = 1,379 F(14, 1364) = 46.69 Prob > F = 0.0000 R-squared = 0.3657 Root MSE = .22103 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Robust ln_aav | Coef. Std. Err. t P>|t| [95% Conf. Interval] -------------+---------------------------------------------------------------- eeduyrs | -.0146247 .0162218 -0.90 0.367 -.046447 .0171976 eeduyrs2 | .0002482 .0005628 0.44 0.659 -.0008558 .0013523 ln_pol | -.0021105 .0147194 -0.14 0.886 -.0309857 .0267647 ln_inc | -.0085991 .0072587 -1.18 0.236 -.0228385 .0056404 age | .0008141 .0004038 2.02 0.044 .000022 .0016061 male | -.0163225 .0118202 -1.38 0.168 -.0395101 .0068652 black_intv | .0988083 .0226284 4.37 0.000 .0544181 .1431985 latino_intv | -.0223923 .0316936 -0.71 0.480 -.0845657 .0397812 asian_intv | -.0580173 .0196254 -2.96 0.003 -.0965166 -.019518 boston | .0759989 .015154 5.02 0.000 .0462711 .1057266 atlanta | .0176392 .0159958 1.10 0.270 -.0137399 .0490183 egal_values | -.196682 .0197411 -9.96 0.000 -.2354082 -.1579559 asian_bias | -.3274019 .083064 -3.94 0.000 -.490349 -.1644548 ln_wav | .3890374 .0283263 13.73 0.000 .3334696 .4446053 _cons | 1.825471 .146685 12.44 0.000 1.537719 2.113224 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ . test eeduyrs eeduyrs2; ( 1) eeduyrs = 0 ( 2) eeduyrs2 = 0 F( 2, 1364) = 4.33
  • 44. TAYLOR: EDUCATION AND RACIAL ATTITUDES 44 Prob > F = 0.0133 . di 1-chi2(2, 2*r(F)); .01312709 . estat ovtest; Ramsey RESET test using powers of the fitted values of ln_aav Ho: model has no omitted variables F(3, 1361) = 2.89 Prob > F = 0.0345 . test black_intv latino_intv asian_intv; ( 1) black_intv = 0 ( 2) latino_intv = 0 ( 3) asian_intv = 0 F( 3, 1364) = 11.48 Prob > F = 0.0000 . di 1-chi2(3, 3*r(F)); 1.605e-07 . test atlanta boston; ( 1) atlanta = 0 ( 2) boston = 0 F( 2, 1364) = 12.84 Prob > F = 0.0000 . di 1-chi2(5,5*r(F)); 1.651e-12 . reg ln_aav eeduyrs eeduyrs2 ln_pol ln_inc age male atlanta boston black_intv > latino_intv asian_intv egal_values asian_bias ln_wav eduxpol eduxinc if white= > =1,r; Linear regression Number of obs = 1,379 F(16, 1362) = 41.85 Prob > F = 0.0000 R-squared = 0.3696 Root MSE = .22052 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Robust ln_aav | Coef. Std. Err. t P>|t| [95% Conf. Interval] -------------+---------------------------------------------------------------- eeduyrs | -.0461544 .025365 -1.82 0.069 -.0959131 .0036042 eeduyrs2 | -.0003504 .0006768 -0.52 0.605 -.0016781 .0009773 ln_pol | .1443738 .0779041 1.85 0.064 -.0084512 .2971988 ln_inc | -.0863531 .0371963 -2.32 0.020 -.1593213 -.0133849 age | .0007712 .0004021 1.92 0.055 -.0000176 .00156 male | -.0149787 .0117899 -1.27 0.204 -.038107 .0081495 atlanta | .0192029 .0159957 1.20 0.230 -.0121761 .0505818 boston | .0754541 .0151109 4.99 0.000 .0458109 .1050972 black_intv | .0975473 .0227713 4.28 0.000 .0528767 .1422179 latino_intv | -.0210222 .0319064 -0.66 0.510 -.0836132 .0415687 asian_intv | -.0553407 .0195457 -2.83 0.005 -.0936837 -.0169977 egal_values | -.1955101 .0197248 -9.91 0.000 -.2342044 -.1568158 asian_bias | -.3328865 .0821285 -4.05 0.000 -.4939986 -.1717744 ln_wav | .3870917 .0283565 13.65 0.000 .3314645 .442719
  • 45. TAYLOR: EDUCATION AND RACIAL ATTITUDES 45 eduxpol | -.0101222 .0051824 -1.95 0.051 -.0202886 .0000441 eduxinc | .0055422 .0025761 2.15 0.032 .0004887 .0105957 _cons | 2.383898 .3628434 6.57 0.000 1.672106 3.095691 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ . test eduxpol eduxinc; ( 1) eduxpol = 0 ( 2) eduxinc = 0 F( 2, 1362) = 3.88 Prob > F = 0.0209 . di 1-chi2(2,2*r(F)); .02062596 . estat ovtest; Ramsey RESET test using powers of the fitted values of ln_aav Ho: model has no omitted variables F(3, 1359) = 3.15 Prob > F = 0.0242 . reg ln_aav c.eeduyrs c.eeduyrs#c.eeduyrs ln_pol ln_inc age male black_intv la > tino_intv asian_intv boston atlanta if white==1,r; Linear regression Number of obs = 1,379 F(11, 1367) = 4.47 Prob > F = 0.0000 R-squared = 0.0331 Root MSE = .2726 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Robust ln_aav | Coef. Std. Err. t P>|t| [95% Conf. Interval] -------------+---------------------------------------------------------------- eeduyrs | -.003105 .0171592 -0.18 0.856 -.0367662 .0305561 | c.eeduyrs#| c.eeduyrs | -.0000998 .0006121 -0.16 0.870 -.0013007 .001101 | ln_pol | .0094743 .0171745 0.55 0.581 -.0242169 .0431655 ln_inc | -.0110652 .0088773 -1.25 0.213 -.0284798 .0063494 age | -.00002 .0004718 -0.04 0.966 -.0009454 .0009055 male | -.0031181 .014837 -0.21 0.834 -.0322239 .0259877 black_intv | .0884109 .0281928 3.14 0.002 .0331051 .1437167 latino_intv | -.010889 .0390885 -0.28 0.781 -.087569 .065791 asian_intv | -.0104676 .0239641 -0.44 0.662 -.057478 .0365428 boston | .0751175 .0185686 4.05 0.000 .0386914 .1115436 atlanta | -.0184219 .0202405 -0.91 0.363 -.0581277 .021284 _cons | 2.71721 .1478972 18.37 0.000 2.42708 3.00734 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ . margins, dydx(*) atmeans; Conditional marginal effects Number of obs = 1,379 Model VCE : Robust Expression : Linear prediction, predict() dy/dx w.r.t. : eeduyrs ln_pol ln_inc age male black_intv latino_intv asian_intv boston atlanta at : eeduyrs = 14.22915 (mean) ln_pol = 1.291399 (mean)
  • 46. TAYLOR: EDUCATION AND RACIAL ATTITUDES 46 ln_inc = 10.96906 (mean) age = 43.19217 (mean) male = .4786077 (mean) black_intv = .0833938 (mean) latino_intv = .0406091 (mean) asian_intv = .1348803 (mean) boston = .2944162 (mean) atlanta = .24438 (mean) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Delta-method | dy/dx Std. Err. t P>|t| [95% Conf. Interval] -------------+---------------------------------------------------------------- eeduyrs | -.0059461 .0031785 -1.87 0.062 -.0121813 .0002891 ln_pol | .0094743 .0171745 0.55 0.581 -.0242169 .0431655 ln_inc | -.0110652 .0088773 -1.25 0.213 -.0284798 .0063494 age | -.00002 .0004718 -0.04 0.966 -.0009454 .0009055 male | -.0031181 .014837 -0.21 0.834 -.0322239 .0259877 black_intv | .0884109 .0281928 3.14 0.002 .0331051 .1437167 latino_intv | -.010889 .0390885 -0.28 0.781 -.087569 .065791 asian_intv | -.0104676 .0239641 -0.44 0.662 -.057478 .0365428 boston | .0751175 .0185686 4.05 0.000 .0386914 .1115436 atlanta | -.0184219 .0202405 -0.91 0.363 -.0581277 .021284 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ . reg ln_aav c.eeduyrs c.eeduyrs#c.eeduyrs ln_pol ln_inc age male black_intv la > tino_intv asian_intv boston atlanta egal_values asian_bias ln_wav if white==1, > r; Linear regression Number of obs = 1,379 F(14, 1364) = 46.69 Prob > F = 0.0000 R-squared = 0.3657 Root MSE = .22103 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Robust ln_aav | Coef. Std. Err. t P>|t| [95% Conf. Interval] -------------+---------------------------------------------------------------- eeduyrs | -.0146247 .0162218 -0.90 0.367 -.046447 .0171976 | c.eeduyrs#| c.eeduyrs | .0002482 .0005628 0.44 0.659 -.0008558 .0013523 | ln_pol | -.0021105 .0147194 -0.14 0.886 -.0309857 .0267647 ln_inc | -.0085991 .0072587 -1.18 0.236 -.0228385 .0056404 age | .0008141 .0004038 2.02 0.044 .000022 .0016061 male | -.0163225 .0118202 -1.38 0.168 -.0395101 .0068652 black_intv | .0988083 .0226284 4.37 0.000 .0544181 .1431985 latino_intv | -.0223923 .0316936 -0.71 0.480 -.0845657 .0397812 asian_intv | -.0580173 .0196254 -2.96 0.003 -.0965166 -.019518 boston | .0759989 .015154 5.02 0.000 .0462711 .1057266 atlanta | .0176392 .0159958 1.10 0.270 -.0137399 .0490183 egal_values | -.196682 .0197411 -9.96 0.000 -.2354082 -.1579559 asian_bias | -.3274019 .083064 -3.94 0.000 -.490349 -.1644548 ln_wav | .3890374 .0283263 13.73 0.000 .3334696 .4446053 _cons | 1.825471 .146685 12.44 0.000 1.537719 2.113224 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ . margins, dydx(*) atmeans; Conditional marginal effects Number of obs = 1,379 Model VCE : Robust