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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Soc Sci Med. 2010 Jul 13;71(7):1268–1276. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2010.06.025

Table 2.

Results (p-values) from Wald tests of the equality of coefficients on education spline terms from models predicting the log odds of smoking/obesity, Mexican and US adults ages 25–64, 2000–2005.

Smoking Obesity
Men Women Men Women
I. Do gradients differ by ethnicity/nativity in the US?
 A. White vs. US-Born Mexican .003 <.001 .051 .183
 B. White vs. Long-stay Mexican <.001 <.001 .233 .029
 C. White vs. Short-stay Mexican <.001 <.001 .171 <.001
 D. US-Born Mexican vs. Short-Stay Mexican .018 .084 .637 .001
II. Do gradients differ by level of migration in Mexico?
 E. High-migration regions vs. Low-migration regions .475 .119 .779 .093
III. Is the imported gradients hypothesis supported?
 F. Short-stay Mexican (US) vs. High-migration regions (Mexico) .289 .025 .740 .031

Source: Authors calculations based on National Health Interview Survey (US) and ENSA (Mexican National Health Survey).