Table 6.
FRAGILE FAMILIES: Regression of Obesity on White Students’ Teacher-Rated Language and Math Skills (~Age 9)
| GIRLS | BOYS | |||||||||||
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| Language and Literacy Skills 1
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Math Skills 1
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Language and Literacy Skills
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Math Skills
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| Model 1 | Model 2 | Model 3 | Model 1 | Model 2 | Model 3 | Model 1 | Model 2 | Model 3 | Model 1 | Model 2 | Model 3 | |
| Bivariate | +test scores | +controls | Bivariate | +test scores | +controls | Bivariate | +test scores | +controls | Bivariate | +test scores | +controls | |
| Obese | −0.417* | −0.342* | −0.335* | −0.192 | −0.153 | −0.145 | 0.008 | 0.095 | 0.159 | −0.062 | 0.014 | 0.064 |
| (0.188) | (0.150) | (0.154) | (0.187) | (0.159) | (0.163) | (0.201) | (0.166) | (0.171) | (0.196) | (0.157) | (0.165) | |
| Overweight | 0.092 | −0.016 | 0.000 | 0.114 | 0.046 | 0.073 | −0.029 | −0.022 | 0.031 | −0.130 | −0.082 | −0.105 |
| (0.163) | (0.130) | (0.133) | (0.160) | (0.137) | (0.140) | (0.201) | (0.166) | (0.174) | (0.199) | (0.159) | (0.167) | |
| Test scores (std) | ||||||||||||
| WJ 9 | 0.394*** | 0.362*** | 0.504*** | 0.429*** | ||||||||
| (0.092) | (0.095) | (0.094) | (0.098) | |||||||||
| PPVT | 0.333*** | 0.294*** | 0.187* | 0.195* | ||||||||
| (0.074) | (0.075) | (0.077) | (0.078) | |||||||||
| WJ10 | 0.322*** | 0.277*** | 0.549*** | 0.503*** | ||||||||
| (0.064) | (0.070) | (0.074) | (0.078) | |||||||||
| Digit span | 0.223*** | 0.203** | 0.191** | 0.205** | ||||||||
| (0.065) | (0.067) | (0.064) | (0.064) | |||||||||
| Social skills (std) | 0.202** | 0.193** | 0.266*** | 0.211*** | ||||||||
| (0.063) | (0.067) | (0.065) | (0.063) | |||||||||
| Constant | 0.521*** | 0.084 | −0.683 | 0.290*** | 0.136* | −1.211 | 0.244** | −0.053 | −0.336 | 0.463*** | 0.164* | −0.918 |
| (0.078) | (0.075) | (1.705) | (0.077) | (0.069) | (1.849) | (0.082) | (0.077) | (1.501) | (0.081) | (0.072) | (1.458) | |
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| R2 | 0.031 | 0.394 | 0.451 | 0.010 | 0.290 | 0.359 | 0.000 | 0.328 | 0.413 | 0.003 | 0.370 | 0.436 |
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| N | 188 | 188 | 188 | 190 | 190 | 190 | 183 | 183 | 183 | 184 | 184 | 184 |
Note: Data were drawn from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study. Sample includes non-Hispanic white respondents with measurements of weight and height and teacher survey data. Model 3 includes controls for parents’ education, parents’ age, child’s age in months, mother’s income, whether a student attended a private school, mother’s cognition, and whether the mother is obese. Standard errors in parentheses.
*
p < .05,
**
p < .01,
***
p < .001
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Wald tests do not establish significance of the difference between the coefficients on obesity in the full models predicting language and math skills for white girls (p = .190).