Table 4.
Marginal effects of explanatory variables on the joint probability of depression and body weight categories for female sample.
| Non-Depressed and | Depressed and | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Variable | Underweight | Normal | Overweight | Obese | Underweight | Normal | Overweight | Obese |
| Continuous explanatory variables | ||||||||
| Age/10 | 0.22 | 3.89 | 2.49 | 1.06 | −0.06 | −2.27 | −2.70 | −2.64 |
| (0.01) *** | (0.11) *** | (0.05) *** | (0.10) *** | (0.00) *** | (0.05) *** | (0.05) *** | (0.05) *** | |
| Income | 0.04 | 0.59 | 0.25 | −0.03 | −0.00 | −0.22 | −0.30 | −0.33 |
| (0.01) *** | (0.08) *** | (0.04) *** | (0.08) | (0.00) ** | (0.04) *** | (0.04) *** | (0.04) *** | |
| Number of fruits | 0.06 | 0.64 | −0.03 | −0.50 | 0.01 | 0.08 | −0.06 | −0.20 |
| (0.01) *** | (0.06) *** | (0.01) *** | (0.05) *** | (0.00) *** | (0.01) *** | (0.01) *** | (0.02) *** | |
| Binary explanatory variables | ||||||||
| Exercise | 0.02 | 0.22 | 0.01 | −0.13 | 0.00 | 0.00 | −0.04 | −0.08 |
| (0.00) *** | (0.01) *** | (0.00) *** | (0.01) *** | (0.00) *** | (0.00) | (0.00) *** | (0.00) *** | |
| White | −0.40 | −5.87 | −2.64 | −0.03 | 0.06 | 2.51 | 3.16 | 3.22 |
| (0.06) *** | (0.54) *** | (0.21) *** | (0.47) | (0.01) *** | (0.20) *** | (0.18) *** | (0.18) *** | |
| Black | −0.84 | −10.57 | 1.91 | 16.26 | −0.17 | −4.15 | −2.74 | 0.29 |
| (0.04) *** | (0.61) *** | (0.28) *** | (0.79) *** | (0.01) *** | (0.17) *** | (0.23) *** | (0.34) | |
| Hispanic | −0.44 | −3.81 | 2.49 | 7.68 | −0.12 | −2.90 | −2.16 | −0.75 |
| (0.05) *** | (0.68) *** | (0.24) *** | (0.72) *** | (0.01) *** | (0.21) *** | (0.24) *** | (0.29) *** | |
| <High school | 0.10 | 1.24 | 0.28 | −0.42 | 0.00 | −0.22 | −0.42 | −0.55 |
| (0.07) | (0.74) * | (0.32) | (0.64) | (0.01) | (0.32) | (0.31) | (0.31) * | |
| Some college | −0.04 | −1.69 | −2.05 | −1.95 | 0.07 | 2.00 | 2.01 | 1.65 |
| (0.03) | (0.37) *** | (0.18) *** | (0.33) *** | (0.01) *** | (0.19) *** | (0.17) *** | (0.18) *** | |
| College degree | 0.39 | 2.12 | −3.06 | −6.18 | 0.15 | 3.34 | 2.34 | 0.91 |
| (0.04) *** | (0.37) *** | (0.17) *** | (0.33) *** | (0.01) *** | (0.18) *** | (0.16) *** | (0.17) *** | |
| Employed | −0.34 | −2.70 | 1.45 | 4.16 | −0.09 | −1.69 | −0.89 | 0.11 |
| (0.03) *** | (0.31) *** | (0.14) *** | (0.28) *** | (0.01) *** | (0.14) *** | (0.13) *** | (0.14) | |
| Unable | −0.43 | −9.78 | −8.08 | −5.42 | 0.19 | 7.14 | 8.34 | 8.04 |
| (0.04) *** | (0.55) *** | (0.36) *** | (0.49) *** | (0.02) *** | (0.42) *** | (0.36) *** | (0.45) *** | |
| Homeowner | −0.01 | 0.99 | 1.67 | 1.85 | −0.06 | −1.67 | −1.58 | −1.20 |
| (0.03) | (0.36) *** | (0.17) *** | (0.32) *** | (0.01) *** | (0.18) *** | (0.16) *** | (0.17) *** | |
| Married | −0.09 | 0.48 | 2.27 | 3.15 | −0.09 | −2.32 | −2.04 | −1.37 |
| (0.04) ** | (0.4) | (0.17) *** | (0.36) *** | (0.01) *** | (0.18) *** | (0.17) *** | (0.17) *** | |
| Divorced | −0.09 | −1.61 | −1.03 | −0.43 | 0.02 | 0.92 | 1.12 | 1.11 |
| (0.04) ** | (0.47) *** | (0.21) *** | (0.43) | (0.01) ** | (0.22) *** | (0.21) *** | (0.22) *** | |
| Widowed | 0.25 | 2.98 | 0.60 | −1.09 | 0.00 | −0.50 | −0.98 | −1.27 |
| (0.06) *** | (0.55) *** | (0.23) *** | (0.47) ** | (0.01) | (0.23) ** | (0.22) *** | (0.21) *** | |
| Very good health | 0.98 | 13.48 | 4.69 | −2.67 | −0.02 | −3.26 | −5.74 | −7.47 |
| (0.04) *** | (0.28) *** | (0.13) *** | (0.21) *** | (0.00) *** | (0.11) *** | (0.13) *** | (0.16) *** | |
| Poor health | −0.60 | −9.31 | −3.87 | 1.38 | 0.00 | 2.24 | 4.26 | 5.89 |
| (0.03) *** | (0.36) *** | (0.19) *** | (0.15) *** | (0.00) | (0.11) *** | (0.18) *** | (0.28) *** | |
| High blood pressure | −1.26 | −14.19 | −0.18 | 11.67 | −0.17 | −1.86 | 1.20 | 4.79 |
| (0.04) *** | (0.29) *** | (0.14) | (0.30) *** | (0.01) *** | (0.12) *** | (0.13) *** | (0.16) *** | |
All effects on probabilities are multiplied by 100. Asymptotic standard errors are in parentheses. *** p < 0.01, ** p < 0.05, * p < 0.10.