Table 7.
Log BMI | Obese | |
---|---|---|
A. Sample Excluding Private School Students (N=7540) | ||
OLS Estimates | ||
Junk food availability | 0.003 | 0.003 |
[0.004] | [0.008] | |
IV Estimates | ||
Junk food availability | 0.005 | 0.011 |
[0.024] | [0.052] | |
Reduced Form Estimates | ||
Combined school attendance | 0.001 | 0.002 |
[0.005] | [0.010] | |
B. Sample Excluding Schools With Grades 9 or higher (N=9030) | ||
OLS Estimates | ||
Junk food availability | 0.001 | −0.002 |
[0.003] | [0.007] | |
IV Estimates | ||
Junk food availability | 0.006 | −0.003 |
[0.023] | [0.053] | |
Reduced Form Estimates | ||
Combined school attendance | 0.001 | 0.000 |
[0.004] | [0.009] | |
C. Sample Excluding Children Who Changed Schools Between Kindergarten and Fifth Grade (N=6980) | ||
OLS Estimates | ||
Junk food availability | 0.001 | −0.004 |
[0.004] | [0.008] | |
IV Estimates | ||
Junk food availability | −0.007 | 0.019 |
[0.029] | [0.070] | |
Reduced Form Estimates | ||
Combined school attendance | −0.001 | 0.003 |
[0.005] | [0.012] |
Notes: All models include the full set of covariates. Robust standard errors clustered at school level are shown in brackets. Hausman tests for consistency of OLS estimates could not be rejected in any case. The tests are not reported in the table.
significant at 10%;
significant at 5%;
significant at 1%