Table 2

Differences in Application Choices and Admission Outcomes

Panel A: Application Portfolios	Average SSCE Performance of Selected Schools
	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)
Student’s BECE	0.231^***	0.231^***	0.231^***	0.230^***	0.230^***
	(0.002)	(0.002)	(0.002)	(0.002)	(0.002)
JHS mean BECE	0.203^***	0.163^***	0.145^***	0.084^***	0.048^***
	(0.006)	(0.007)	(0.006)	(0.006)	(0.007)
JHS public		−0.180^***	−0.167^***	−0.147^***	−0.144^***
		(0.010)	(0.010)	(0.009)	(0.008)
Elite SHS in district			0.093^***
			(0.012)
Colonial SHS in district			0.015
			(0.012)
Category A SHS in district			0.043^***
			(0.010)
JHS applicants to elite SHSs					0.002^***
					(0.000)
District FEs	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
R²	0.375	0.390	0.401	0.470	0.482
N	487,562	487,562	487,562	487,562	487,562
Panel B: Application and Admission	Application Portfolio		Admission Outcomes
	Avg. SSCE Performance	Average Selectivity	SSCE Perf. of SHS	Selectivity of SHS	Peer Quality in SHS
	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)
Student’s BECE	0.230^***	0.205^***	0.614^***	0.615^***	0.633^***
	(0.002)	(0.001)	(0.007)	(0.004)	(0.003)
JHS mean BECE	0.084^***	0.085^***	0.141^***	0.107^***	0.111^***
	(0.006)	(0.005)	(0.008)	(0.004)	(0.004)
JHS public	−0.147^***	−0.148^***	−0.033^***	−0.041^***	−0.045^***
	(0.009)	(0.007)	(0.009)	(0.005)	(0.005)
District FEs	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
R²	0.470	0.580	0.563	0.702	0.749
N	487,562	487,562	472,542	487,562	487,562

Notes: Table reports coefficients from a set of linear regressions. Outcome of interest is indicated at the top of each column. SSCE performance measures the percentage of secondary school students who earned a credit in the 12th grade English and math exams. School selectivity measures the average ninth grade exam score of students admitted to a secondary school between 2005 and 2009. Peer quality measures the average ninth grade exam score of students admitted in the current year. Standard errors are clustered at the junior high school level and reported in parentheses; ^*p < 0.1, ^**p < 0.05, ^***p < 0.01.