Table A1.

Variable definitions and sample statistics.

Variable	Definition	Male	Female
Endogenous variables
Body Weight	Ordinal indicator of body mass index (1–4)	3.04	2.89
		(0.76)	(0.85)
Depression	Have depressive symptoms	0.11	0.23
Continuous explanatory variables
Age	Age in years	55.60	56.57
		(16.85)	(16.36)
Income	Annual household income level (1–8)	6.63	6.15
		(1.81)	(2.03)
Number of fruits	Total fruits consumed per day	1.53	1.63
		(2.16)	(2.00)
Exercise	Number of times doing physical activity during last 30	15.99	16.11
	days	(12.05)	(11.75)
Binary explanatory variables (yes = 1, no = 0)
White	Race is White	0.80	0.79
Black	Race is Black	0.05	0.07
Hispanic	Race is Hispanic	0.07	0.07
Other race	Other race (reference)	0.07	0.06
Base	Do not have high school diploma	0.04	0.04
High school	Has a high school diploma or GED (reference)	0.21	0.20
Some college	Has some college but not a Bachelor’s degree	0.26	0.29
College degree	Has a Bachelor’s degree or above	0.48	0.47
Employed	Employed	0.60	0.49
Unable	Unable to work	0.03	0.05
Home owner	Home owner	0.78	0.77
Married	Married	0.63	0.54
Divorced	Divorced	0.11	0.14
Widowed	Widowed	0.05	0.14
Single	Single, separate, or unmarried couple (reference)	0.20	0.17
High blood pressure	Have been told by a doctor that they have high blood pressure	0.42	0.35
Very good health	Self-report very excellent or very good health status	0.58	0.59
Good health	Self- report good health status (reference)	0.30	0.28
Poor health	Self-report fair or poor health status	0.12	0.12
Sample size		71,603	71,034

Note: Standard deviations are in parentheses. Income is the annual household income reported as categories from 1 to 8: 1 = less than $10,000, 2= $10,000 to $15,000, 3 = $15,000 to $20,000, 4 = $20,000 to $25,000, 5 = $25,000 to $35,000, 6 = $35,000 to $50,000, 7 = $50,000 to $75,000, and 8 = $75,000 or more.