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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jul 20.
Published in final edited form as: Health Econ. 2009 Jun;18(6):645–663. doi: 10.1002/hec.1394

Appendix C.

Summary of Findings – Shopping and Cooking

Model Minority groups Education Annual household income
Spent any extra time?
Baseline specification All minority groups are more likely
to spend extra time shopping and
cooking than whites.
No significant differences by
education.
Patients with <$75K income less
likely to spend extra time than
those with ≥ $75K.
    With marital status Same as baseline model Patients with <high school
education more likely to spend
extra time than college graduates.
Same as baseline model
    With days worked All minority groups (except other
races) more likely to spend extra
time than whites.
Same as baseline model No significant differences by
income
    Without clinical
    characteristics
Same as baseline model Same as baseline model Same as baseline model
For those who spent extra time, how much extra time was spent?
Baseline specification Extra time spent shopping and
cooking is greater for AAs and
Asians than for whites.
Extra time spent is greater for
patients with < college degree
than for college graduates.
Extra time spent is greater for
patients with <$75K income than
for those with ≥ $75K.
    With marital status Extra time spent shopping and
cooking is greater for AAs than
whites.
Same as baseline model Same as baseline model
    With days worked Same as baseline model Same as baseline model Same as baseline model
    Without clinical
    characteristics
Same as baseline model Same as baseline model Same as baseline model
Among entire sample, how much extra time was spent?
Baseline specification Extra time spent shopping and
cooking is greater for all minority
groups than for whites.
Extra time spent is greater for
patients with < college degree
than for college graduates.
Extra time spent is greater for
patients with <$75K income than
for those with ≥ $75K.
    With marital status Same as baseline model Same as baseline model Same as baseline model
    With days worked Same as baseline model Extra time spent is greater for
patients with <high school or some
college than for college graduates.
Same as baseline model
    Without clinical
    characteristics
Same as baseline model Same as baseline model Same as baseline model

Minority categories: Latino, African-American (abbreviated AA), Asian/Pacific Islander (abbreviated Asian), other; reference group is whites.

Education categories: less than high school, high school graduate, some college, college graduate (reference group).

Income categories: less than $15,000, $15,000 to $39,999; $40,000 to $74,999; $75,000 or higher (reference group).

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