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. 2018 Apr 14;14:35. doi: 10.1186/s12992-018-0344-y

Table 3.

Average BMI Worldwide

(1) FE (2) FE (3) FE (4) FE
VARIABLES BMI Average BMI Average BMI Average BMI Average
Sugar and Processed Food Import (log) 0.004*** 0.001
(0.001) (0.010)
KOF 0.013*** 0.011*** 0.010*** 0.011***
(0.002) (0.002) (0.001) (0.002)
GDP capita (log) 0.652*** 0.645*** 0.567*** 0.645***
(0.039) (0.038) (0.034) (0.038)
ODA Aid (log) 0.002 0.002 0.002* 0.002
(0.001) (0.001) (0.001) (0.001)
Health Expenditure per capita 0.000*** 0.000*** 0.000*** 0.000***
(0.000) (0.000) (0.000) (0.000)
Population (log) 2.129*** 2.154*** 2.103*** 2.154***
(0.072) (0.071) (0.066) (0.071)
Age Dependency −0.015*** −0.015*** −0.016*** − 0.015***
(0.001) (0.001) (0.001) (0.001)
Total Import (log) 0.014*** 0.014*
(0.002) (0.008)
Total Export (log) −0.009*** −0.009***
(0.002) (0.002)
Democracy −0.084*** −0.087*** − 0.057** −0.087***
(0.028) (0.027) (0.023) (0.027)
Interstate Conflict Severity −0.000 − 0.000 −0.000 − 0.000
(0.000) (0.000) (0.000) (0.000)
Intrastate Conflict −0.062** −0.068*** 0.013 −0.068***
(0.026) (0.025) (0.010) (0.025)
Constant −13.145*** −13.491*** −13.011*** −13.488***
(1.211) (1.196) (1.140) (1.197)
Observations 2408 2408 2109 2109
R-squared 0.746 0.753 0.795 0.753
Number of Countries 172 172 172 172

Standard errors in parentheses

***p < 0.01, **p < 0.05, *p < 0.1