Table 8.

Synthetic Control Descriptive Statistics

	BMI			Overweight			Obese
	Ohio	Synthetic Control	States Without Tax Changes	Ohio	Synthetic Control	States Without Tax Changes	Ohio	Synthetic Control	States Without Tax Changes
Pre-treatment (1989–1992)
Weight Variable	25.237	25.235	24.967	0.468	0.467	0.444	0.127	0.126	0.120
Weight Variable, 1989 only	24.880	24.950	24.745	0.426	0.429	0.420	0.115	0.115	0.107
Weight Variable, 1990 only	25.035	25.073	24.907	0.458	0.457	0.439	0.107	0.114	0.112
Weight Variable, 1991 only	25.486	25.370	25.005	0.481	0.479	0.450	0.149	0.140	0.118
Weight Variable, 1992 only	25.549	25.546	25.210	0.506	0.504	0.468	0.136	0.136	0.127
Male	0.480	0.481	0.487	0.480	0.483	0.487	0.480	0.480	0.487
Age	44.068	44.540	43.918	44.068	44.401	43.918	44.068	45.226	43.918
Black	0.085	0.057	0.076	0.085	0.060	0.076	0.085	0.056	0.076
Hispanic	0.014	0.063	0.048	0.014	0.023	0.048	0.014	0.040	0.048
High School Grad	0.854	0.782	0.835	0.854	0.813	0.835	0.854	0.851	0.835
College Grad	0.189	0.188	0.217	0.189	0.183	0.217	0.189	0.224	0.217
State unemployment rate, lagged	6.000	8.185	5.556	6.000	7.407	5.556	6.000	4.918	5.556
State cigarette tax	18.000	22.891	20.171	18.000	21.582	20.171	18.000	31.829	20.171
Post-treatment (1993–1994)
Weight Variable	25.563	25.814	25.415	0.499	0.519	0.488	0.152	0.149	0.139
Weight Variable, 1993 only	25.390	25.668	25.345	0.483	0.527	0.482	0.143	0.151	0.135
Weight Variable, 1994 only	25.736	25.960	25.485	0.514	0.512	0.493	0.160	0.147	0.143

Notes: Mean values for Ohio and states without tax changes are state level (unweighted) means while synthetic control values are calculated using the method described in Abadie et al (2010).