. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jun 12.

Published in final edited form as: J Health Soc Behav. 2018 Jan 4;59(1):56–73. doi: 10.1177/0022146517746672

Table 2.

Multilevel Models of Race-ethnicity, Gender, SES and BMI; NLSY97, Waves 1–15

	Model 1			Model 2			Model 3

Fixed Effects ^a	Men	Women	^bm≠w	Men	Women	m≠w	Men	Women	m≠w
Intercept	20.878^***	20.058^***	†	21.146^***	21.134^***		21.289^***	21.253^***
Race (ref. White)
Black	.579^***	2.991^***	†	.341	2.375^***	†	.178	2.713^***	†
Hispanic	1.361^***	1.417^***		1.051^***	.733^*		1.123^***	.367
SES
Parental Education				−.071^*	−.174^***		−.207^***	−.278^***
Parental Net Worth				−.052^*	−.028		−.077^**	−.064^*
Race × SES
Black × Parental Education							.214^*	.145
Hispanic × Parental Education							.184^**	.142
Black × Parental Net Worth							.030	.144^***
Hispanic × Parental Net Worth							.057	−.038	†
Age	.709^***	.678^***		.709^***	.678^***		.709^***	.678^***
Age²	−.016^***	−.013^***		−.016^***	−.013^***		−.016^***	−.013^***

Random Effects

Level 1 Residual	2.392^***	2.873^***		2.392^***	2.873^***		2.392^***	2.873^***
Level 2 Intercept	4.557^***	5.651^***		4.542^***	5.593^***		4.534^***	5.572^***

−2 Log Likelihood	10469712	10117096		10468625	10113934		10467976	10112768

N	3711	3494		3711	3494		3711	3494

Note: BMI=body-mass index; SES=socioeconomic status; NLSY97= National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 cohort.

All models control for proportion of waves missing, urban residence, whether the respondent was ever incarcerated, and missing on parental net worth

‘m≠w’ indicates Chow tests for differences between men and women

p < .05

^**

p < .01

^***

p < .001