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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 8.

Effect of Junk Food Availability in School on Height in Fifth Grade

Log (5th Grade Height)
(1) (2) (3)
OLS Estimates
    Junk food availability 0.000 0.001 0.000
[0.001] [0.001] [0.001]
IV Estimates
    Junk food availability 0.020 0.007 0.006
[0.016] [0.008] [0.008]
Reduced Form Estimates
    Combined school attendance 0.002 0.001 0.001
[0.001] [0.002] [0.001]
Covariates
    Demographics Y Y Y
    State & urbanicity dummies N Y Y
    Baseline BMI N N Y

Note: N=9,380. Robust standard errors clustered at school level are shown in brackets.

+

significant at 10%;

*

significant at 5%;

**

significant at 1%