Table 5.
Log BMI | Obese | |||||
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(1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | (6) | |
A. OLS Estimates | ||||||
Junk food availability | 0.011* | 0.007 | 0.001 | 0.019* | 0.009 | −0.001 |
[0.005] | [0.005] | [0.003] | [0.009] | [0.010] | [0.007] | |
B. IV Estimates | ||||||
Junk food availability | 0.083 | 0.010 | 0.003 | 0.104 | 0.014 | 0.003 |
[0.064] | [0.029] | [0.020] | [0.114] | [0.060] | [0.046] | |
C. Reduced Form Estimates | ||||||
Combined school attendance | 0.009 | 0.002 | 0.001 | 0.012 | 0.003 | 0.001 |
[0.006] | [0.006] | [0.004] | [0.011] | [0.012] | [0.009] | |
Covariates | ||||||
Demographics | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
State & urbanicity dummies | N | Y | Y | N | Y | Y |
Baseline BMI | N | N | Y | N | N | Y |
Notes: N=9,380. Robust standard errors clustered at school level are shown in brackets. Other covariates in the model include male, age (months), male*age, race/ethnicity, kindergarten BMI, mother’s education, income, private school dummy, categories for percent minority in school and school enrollment, and state and urbanicity dummies. First stage results are shown in Table 2.
significant at 10%;
significant at 5%;
significant at 1%.