Table 1.

Impact of Immigration on Body Mass Index (BMI): 2005 American Population

Variable	OLS		Quantile Regression
	Mean BMI	Overweight cutoff	Stage-1 obesity cutoff	Stage-2 obesity cutoff
Male
Immigrant U.S. residence (native-born as reference)
< 10 years	−1.737**	−0.975**	−2.246** a	−3.546** b c
10+ years	−1.039**	−0.558**	−1.289** a	−2.398** b c
Erosion (%)	40.2	42.8	42.6	32.4
Female
Immigrant U.S. residence (native-born as reference)
< 10 years	−1.984**	−1.517**	−2.834** a	−4.040** b c
10+ years	−0.934**	−0.859**	−1.222**	−1.768** b
Erosion (%)	52.9	43.4	56.9	56.2

Note: Presented are estimates from the full model, separately for men and women. The full model includes race/ethnicity, age, age-squared, education, income-to-needs, number of children, marital status, and Food Stamp participation, the coefficients of which are not shown in the table.

The superscripts (a, b, and c) indicate that the difference in coefficients are significant between Stage-1 obesity cutoff and overweight cutoff (a), between Stage-2 obesity cutoff and Stage-1 obesity cutoff (b), and between Stage-2 obesity cutoff and overweight cutoff (c).

^*p < .05

^**p <. 01