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Table 4 BMI and hours work in men and women: does marital status matter?

From: Marriage markets as explanation for why heavier people work more hours

 

White

White

Black

Black

Hispanic

Hispanic

Panel A: OLS estimates for the interaction model, women

 BMI

0.00528*** (2.909)

0.00661*** (3.742)

0.00668*** (4.407)

0.00690*** (4.579)

−0.00130 (−0.403)

−0.000624 (−0.202)

 Married

−0.0895 (−1.312)

−0.0758 (−1.162)

0.155 (1.563)

0.0690 (0.739)

−0.0293 (−0.218)

−0.104 (−0.777)

 BMI × married

−1.44e−05 (−0.00522)

−0.000761 (−0.287)

−0.00502 (−1.452)

−0.00279 (−0.847)

1.63e−05 (0.00342)

0.00309 (0.663)

 Control for wage

No

Yes

No

Yes

No

Yes

 Observations

11,708

11,708

5881

5881

3081

3081

Panel B: OLS estimates for the interaction model, Men

 BMI

0.00386** (2.136)

0.00361** (2.072)

0.00629** (2.463)

0.00492* (1.911)

0.00167 (0.729)

0.00195 (0.904)

 Married

0.223*** (3.320)

0.169** (2.515)

0.375*** (2.943)

0.270** (2.241)

0.218** (2.221)

0.132 (1.362)

 BMI × married

−0.00427* (−1.647)

−0.00320 (−1.247)

−0.00740 (−1.630)

−0.00560 (−1.309)

−0.00253 (−0.754)

−0.00118 (−0.364)

 Control for wage

No

Yes

No

Yes

No

Yes

 Observations

13,209

13,209

5973

5973

4119

4119

  1. Note 1: Control variables include work experience (quadratic), educational categories, dummies for whether the woman believes in traditional gender roles, whether the respondent has any children, if the youngest child is below six, yearly age dummies, region of residence dummies, and year dummies. Note 2: All t-stats reported are based on standard errors clustered at the individual level. *** p < 0.01, ** p < 0.05, and * p < 0.10