Table 8.

NLSY97: Association between Obesity and White Girls’ Cumulative High School GPA by Course Subject (~Age 18)

SUBJECT	COEFFICIENT ON OBESITY
English	−0.256***
	(0.069)
Social Science	−0.179**
	(0.069)
Lab Science	−0.136
	(0.0711)
Math	−0.052
	(0.078)

Note: Data were drawn from the National Longitudinal Study of Youth 1997 cohort. Sample includes non-Hispanic white girls with transcript data reported. All missing values imputed. Models include controls for parents’ education, household income, whether a student attended a private school, whether the mother is obese, and whether the student lives in an urban area, as well as fixed effects on census region and birth year. Standard errors in parentheses.

^*p < .05,

^**p < .01,

^***p < .001