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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 May 30.
Published in final edited form as: J Policy Anal Manage. 2012 Spring;31(2):312–337. doi: 10.1002/pam.21602

Table 11.

Effect of Junk Food Availability on Total Consumption of Selected Unhealthy and Healthy Foods in Fifth Grade

Dependent Variable
Unhealthy Healthy Foods

Soda Fast Foods Milk Green
salad
Carrots Potatoes Other
vegetables
Fruits

Explanatory Variable (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8)
  OLS Estimates
    Junk food availability −0.075 −0.054 −0.263 0.074 −0.21 −0.133 −0.280+ −0.317
[0.189] [0.120] [0.220] [0.105] [0.133] [0.084] [0.156] [0.202]
  Reduced Form Estimates
    Combined school attendance −0.193 −0.109 −0.256 0.15 −0.05 −0.072 −0.008 −0.086
[0.268] [0.147] [0.305] [0.126] [0.157] [0.105] [0.203] [0.239]
Median of dept var 2 2 7 2 2 2 2 5
Mean(std dev) of dept var 6.14(7.58) 2.9(4.7) 10.72(9.40) 2.28(4.20) 2.97(5.53) 1.91(3.49) 5.19(6.36) 7.82(8.16)

Notes: N=9380. Each estimate represents a separate regression. Dependent variable captures the number of times the food or beverage item was consumed during the last 7 days. All models include the full set of covariates. Robust standard errors clustered at school level are shown in brackets.

+

significant at 10%;

*

significant at 5%;

**

significant at 1%