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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Health Econ. 2008 Aug 9;27(5):1400–1405. doi: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2008.07.001

Table 1.

Replication of Add Health Results Show School Trends Do Not Matter and Show Evidence of Directional Effects

Model 1: Alter is the Named Friend Model 2: Effect of Named Friend with School Trends Model 3: Alter is the Person who Named the Friend
Coef. S.E. p Coef. S.E. p Coef. S.E. p
Contemporaneous
Alter BMI 0.033 0.014 0.022 0.033 0.014 0.020 0.002 0.014 0.900
Alter Previous BMI −0.004 0.015 0.762 −0.005 0.015 0.759 0.002 0.015 0.908
Ego Previous BMI 0.952 0.015 0.000 0.952 0.015 0.000 0.937 0.016 0.000
Ego Gender −0.129 0.085 0.129 −0.132 0.085 0.121 −0.176 0.100 0.078
Ego Age −0.079 0.030 0.008 −0.079 0.030 0.008 −0.071 0.033 0.033
Ego Hispanic 0.185 0.139 0.182 0.179 0.139 0.198 0.029 0.147 0.845
Ego Black 0.225 0.120 0.060 0.225 0.120 0.060 0.192 0.136 0.158
Wave 2.736 0.158 0.000 2.725 0.159 0.000 2.699 0.174 0.000
Maternal Education −0.041 0.020 0.037 −0.041 0.020 0.035 −0.023 0.021 0.279
Family Income 0.000 0.001 0.642 0.000 0.001 0.652 −0.001 0.001 0.425
School Trends 0.037 0.032 0.254
Constant −2.874 0.537 0.000 −2.854 0.540 0.000 −2.001 0.639 0.002
Deviance 55734 55732 27782
Null Deviance 240646 240646 107965
N 8504 8504 4742