Table 4.
The Impact of Incremental Soft Drink Taxes on BMI, Obese, and Overweight by Demographic Category
| BMI |
Obese |
Overweight |
N |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Female | −0.0040*** [0.0008] |
0.0000 [0.0001] |
−0.0005*** [0.0001] |
1583097 |
| Male | −0.0009** [0.0004] |
−0.0001 [0.0000] |
0.0001** [0.0000] |
1126325 |
| Black | −0.0012 [0.0017] |
−0.0001 [0.0001] |
0.0001 [0.0001] |
235642 |
| White | −0.0026*** [0.0005] |
0.0000 [0.0000] |
−0.0002*** [0.0001] |
2413637 |
| Hispanic | −0.0164*** [0.0019] |
−0.0021*** [0.0002] |
−0.0022*** [0.0001] |
157002 |
| High School Graduate | −0.0031*** [0.0005] |
−0.0002*** [0.0000] |
0.0002*** [0.0000] |
2389880 |
| College Graduate | −0.0076*** [0.0007] |
−0.0004*** [0.0000] |
−0.0004*** [0.0001] |
792385 |
| Married | −0.0044*** [0.0006] |
−0.0003*** [0.0000] |
−0.0005*** [0.0001] |
1481699 |
| Age > 65 | −0.0038*** [0.0012] |
−0.0001 [0.0001] |
−0.0002 [0.0001] |
553913 |
| Age 18-25 | 0.0022 [0.0014] |
0.0000 [0.0001] |
0.0001 [0.0001] |
236521 |
| Age 25-40 | −0.0032*** [0.0006] |
−0.0001 [0.0001] |
−0.0005*** [0.0001] |
740654 |
| Age 40-65 | −0.0037*** [0.0005] |
0.0000 [0.0001] |
−0.0001* [0.0001] |
1178334 |
Notes: Heteroskedasticity-robust standards errors in parentheses that allow for clustering within states. Each cell represents a separate regression. The White and High school graduate samples were estimated using a 50% random sample. Additional variables include male, age, age squared, black, Hispanic, state, year, and quarter fixed effects, and state-specific time trends. Observations are weighted using the BRFSS survey weights in all regressions.
*
significant at 10%
**
significant at 5%
***
significant at 1%