Table 2:

OLS Estimates of the Effect of BMI on Mental Health in Young and Old Adults

	Add Health			HRS
	All	Women	Men	All	Women	Men
	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)	(6)
A: CES-D Score
Outcome Mean	5.79	6.18	5.33	1.26	1.43	1.03
BMI	0.028*** (.010)	0.062*** (.014)	−0.028** (.014)	0.029*** (.004)	0.030*** (.005)	0.026*** (.006)
Depression PGS	0.359*** (.086)	0.345*** (.126)	0.389*** (.116)	0.130*** (.020)	0.121*** (.029)	0.104*** (.027)
Education PGS	−0.101 (.068)	−0.087 (.098)	−0.010 (.096)	−0.085*** (.068)	−0.099*** (.098)	−0.064*** (.096)
B: Depressed
Outcome Mean	0.15	0.17	0.12	0.12	0.14	0.09
BMI	0.002*** (.001)	0.004*** (.001)	−0.002 (.001)	0.003*** (.001)	0.004*** (.001)	0.003** (.001)
Depression PGS	0.023*** (.007)	0.024** (.010)	0.022** (.009)	0.017*** (.004)	0.019*** (.005)	0.014*** (.005)
Education PGS	−0.005 (.005)	−0.004 (.008)	−0.004 (.007)	−0.013*** (.004)	−0.018*** (.005)	−0.007 (.007)
N	4928	2643	2285	8867	5104	3763

Notes: Add Health regressions in columns 1–3 control for age, age squared, gender, birth order, mother’s education, picture vocabulary score, and the first 20 ancestry-specific principal components of the genetic data. HRS regressions in columns 4–6 control for age, age squared, gender, mother’s education and the first 10 ancestry-specific principal components of the genetic data. Heteroscedasticity-robust standard errors in parentheses.

^***significant at 1%

^**significant at 5%

^*significant at 10%