Table 2.

Fixed-Effects Linear Regression Models Predicting Body Mass Index: Non-Hispanic Black National Longitudinal Survey of Youth Respondents, 1981–2010

	Model A		Model B		Model C

Independent Variables	Coef.	S.E.	Coef.	S.E.	Coef.	S.E.
Marital Status (1= married)	0.608^***	0.064	0.608^***	0.064	0.608^***	0.064
Educational Attainment (ref.=college or above)
Less than high school	−0.816^***	0.209	−0.811^***	0.210	−0.819^***	0.210
High school graduate	−1.029^***	0.171	−1.027^***	0.172	−1.029^***	0.172
Some college	−0.417^**	0.133	−0.417^**	0.133	−0.422^**	0.133
Weekly hours worked	0.004^**	0.001	0.004^**	0.001	0.004^**	0.001
Adjusted family income (in $10,000s)	−0.002	0.003	−0.002	0.003	−0.002	0.003
Receiving public assistance (= 1)	0.261^*	0.102	0.260^*	0.102	0.262^*	0.102
Immediate Neighborhood Variables
Proportion non−Hispanic Black	0.096	0.111	0.121	0.131	0.103	0.136
Poverty Rate	−0.247	0.242	−0.273	0.276	−0.074	0.287
Cumulative Exposure to Immediate Neighborhood Variables
Proportion non−Hispanic Black			−0.127	0.349	−0.114	0.349
Poverty Rate			0.151	0.796	0.158	0.796
Extralocal Neighborhood Variables
Proportion non−Hispanic Black					0.096	0.164
Poverty Rate					−0.780^*	0.337
Constant	23.596^***	0.199	23.619^***	0.241	23.638^***	0.241

R² squared (within)	0.41		0.41		0.41
Number of Persons	2,097		2,097		2,097

Number of Person−years	19,952		19,952		19,952

⁺

p< 0.1

p< 0.05

^**

p< 0.01

^***

p< 0.001.

Note: All models include dummy variables for year of observation (coefficients not shown).