TABLE 7.

Key Regression Results for South Africa’s Neighbors

Dep var: BMI	(1) Les 04	(2) Les 09	(3) Swazi 06	(4) Moz 97	(5) Moz 03	(6) Mal 00	(7) Mal 10	(8) Nam 92	(9) Nam 06
Cross sectional
female		3.655*** (0.174)	3.603*** (0.151)
age	0.634*** (0.137)	0.490*** (0.0573)	0.500*** (0.0591)	0.0212 (0.0891)	0.275*** (0.0558)	0.228*** (0.0377)	0.240*** (0.0755)	0.486*** (0.124)	0.539*** (0.0816)
age2	−0.00675*** (0.00207)	−0.00538*** (0.000775)	−0.00458*** (0.000908)	0.000681 (0.00136)	−0.00326*** (0.000828)	−0.00275*** (0.000565)	−0.00283** (0.00113)	−0.00634*** (0.00196)	−0.00530*** (0.00122)
employed	0.399* (0.232)	0.161 (0.168)	0.404*** (0.151)	−0.106 (0.227)	0.358*** (0.130)	−0.0108 (0.0821)	0.331** (0.149)	1.027*** (0.213)	0.532*** (0.153)
smoker	−1.307*** (0.345)	−1.173*** (0.146)	−1.880*** (0.193)
asset index	1.213*** (0.152)	1.083*** (0.0946)	1.000*** (0.0902)	0.869*** (0.153)	1.341*** (0.0978)	0.573*** (0.0520)	0.865*** (0.106)	1.349*** (0.127)	1.610*** (0.111)
educ	0.0332 (0.0544)	0.0471* (0.0254)	0.0229 (0.0189)	0.213*** (0.0514)	0.0310 (0.0259)	0.0776*** (0.0125)	0.00540 (0.0221)	0.0357 (0.0263)	0.0560** (0.0269)
Observations	2401	5184	5975	2813	8326	8923	5185	2303	6822
R-squared	0.153	0.261	0.284	0.155	0.161	0.079	0.088	0.156	0.177
Household fixed effects
employed	0.308 (0.632)	0.169 (0.299)	0.330 (0.202)	0.492 (0.613)	0.0744 (0.381)	0.873*** (0.331)	0.638 (0.722)	1.429*** (0.517)	0.323 (0.381)
educ	−0.000981 (0.135)	0.0797* (0.0443)	0.0479 (0.0313)	−0.0567 (0.142)	−0.152*** (0.0535)	−0.00902 (0.0491)	0.205** (0.103)	0.0685 (0.0590)	0.123** (0.0554)
Observations	2401	5184	5975	2813	8326	8923	5185	2303	6822
R-squared	0.273	0.284	0.369	0.027	0.086	0.060	0.078	0.132	0.171
Number of hid	2121	3483	3744	2651	7255	8266	4879	1823	5335

Notes: Other regressors: a quadratic in age (gender specific in the FE case), dummy for smokers, numbers of children/adults.

Robust standard errors in parentheses.

^***p < 0.01,

^**p < 0.05,

^*p < 0.1.