Table 2.
Effects of obesity on depression
| Independent variables | Depression (d/mo) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | |
| Obesity | |||||
| Body mass index (SE)1 | 0.159** (0.061) | 0.135** (0.030) | 0.104** (0.018) | 0.111** (0.008) | 0.093** (0.004) |
| Reference group2 | State, year, month | (1) + male | (2) + married | (3) + race, Hispanic | (4) + education |
| R2 | 0.100 | 0.065 | 0.050 | 0.028 | 0.023 |
| Observations (n) | 6914 | 13 828 | 27 645 | 109 378 | 285 334 |
| Hausman test (χ2) (p-value) | 41.50 (0.003) | 314.70 (<0.001) | 340.13 (<0.001) | 242.67 (<0.001) | 348.22 (<0.001) |
The dependent variable was depression, and the independent variables were body mass index, age, household income level, the yearly fixed effect, and the monthly fixed effect.
1
Clustered standard errors (SEs) by reference group level are provided.
2
Reference group means the level of pseudo panel constructed and ‘+’ means added pseudo panel level to the specified column.
**
p<0.01.