Table 1 Descriptive statistics

From: Fat spouses and hours of work: are body and Pareto weights correlated?

	Mean	SD
Hours wife	1857.09	545.62
Hours husband	2361.24	512.81
BMI wife	24.68	4.38
BMI husband	27.69	3.82
Non-labor income	9224.45	34610.09
Hourly wage wife	19.61	13.15
Hourly wage husband	26.62	31.61
Age wife	38.53	5.91
Age husband	40.26	6.05
Education wife	13.97	2.07
Education husband	13.81	2.15
Good health wife	0.98	0.15
Good health husband	0.97	0.18
Recent pregnancy	0.10	0.30
Number of children	1.42	1.03
Sedentary job wife	0.86	0.34
Sedentary job husband	0.58	0.49
BMI wife/BMI husband	0.90	0.17
Food expenditure ratio^a	0.70	0.17
N	2,043

Note: All Tables use PSID data, 1999–2007. Men aged 28–50 and working more than 1000 hours per year, women aged 26–48 working more than 750 hours per year, both earning more than $5 per hour and non-disabled. Marital duration of at least 4 years. Sampling weights are used.
^aFor food ratio N=2,025.

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