Table 3.

Fixed-Effects Linear Regression Models Predicting Body Mass Index: Hispanic 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)	0.611^***	0.062	0.612^***	0.062	0.613^***	0.062
Educational Attainment (ref.=college or above)
Less than high school	−0.382⁺	0.213	−0.390⁺	0.213	−0.392⁺	0.213
High school graduate	0.059	0.181	0.056	0.181	0.054	0.181
Some college	0.307^*	0.151	0.313^*	0.151	0.311^*	0.151
Weekly hours worked	0.002	0.001	0.002	0.001	0.002	0.001
Adjusted family income (in $10,000s)	−0.003	0.003	−0.003	0.003	−0.003	0.003
Receiving public assistance (= 1)	−0.117	0.134	−0.112	0.134	−0.113	0.134
Immediate Neighborhood Variables
Proportion Hispanic	0.452^**	0.162	0.250	0.194	0.283	0.214
Poverty Rate	−0.519	0.315	−0.115	0.366	−0.150	0.390
Cumulative Exposure to Immediate Neighborhood Variables
Proportion Hispanic			1.057^*	0.534	1.056^*	0.534
Poverty Rate			−2.288^*	1.067	−2.294^*	1.067
Extralocal Neighborhood Variables
Proportion Hispanic					−0.082	0.214
Poverty Rate					0.084	0.382
Constant	22.962^***	0.213	23.007^***	0.258	23.009^***	0.259

R² squared (within)	0.40		0.40		0.40
Number of Persons	1,476		1,476		1,476

Number of Person-years	14,926		14,926		14,926

⁺

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).