The Cost of Opportunity: Anti-Black Discrimination in High Resource Settings

Table 1.

Descriptive Data Overall

Mean Std. Err. [95% Conf. Interval]


Age (Years) 9.0 0.005 9.470 9.490

Picture Vocabulary (Age Corrected) 101.092 0.183 100.734    101.450

List Sorting Working Memory (Age Corrected) 101.229    0.167       100.902 101.556

Reading (Age Corrected) 103.065 0.192 102.688 103.442

Depression (Z score) -0.014 0.010 -0.033 0.006

Perceived School Discrimination 1.281 0.006 1.268 1.293

  Proportion SE [95% conf. interval]

Race        

    White 0.729 0.006 0.717 0.740

    Black 0.271 0.006 0.260 0.283

Educational COI        

    Lowest 0.171 0.005 0.161 0.182

    Low 0.118 0.004 0.110 0.127

    Average 0.153 0.005 0.144 0.163

    High 0.217 0.006 0.206 0.228

    Highest 0.341 0.006 0.328 0.353

Gender        

    Female 0.476 0.007 0.463 0.489

    Male 0.524 0.007 0.511 0.537

Marital Status of the Household        

    Unwed Household 0.340 0.006 0.327 0.352

    Married Household 0.660 0.006 0.648 0.673

School Suspension        

    No 0.937 0.003 0.931 0.944

    Yes 0.063 0.003 0.056 0.069

Educational Childhood Opportunity Index (COI)