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Table 7 BMI and log hours of work for single women: excluding women with health limitations

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

 

White

White

Black

Black

Hispanic

Hispanic

BMI

0.00588*** (3.469)

0.00702*** (4.189)

0.00680*** (4.341)

0.00701*** (4.490)

−0.00128 (−0.379)

−0.000474 (−0.147)

Control for wage

No

Yes

No

Yes

No

Yes

Observations

6296

6296

4486

4486

1983

1983

  1. Note 1: Control variables include work experience (quadratic), educational categories, dummies for whether the woman believes in traditional gender roles, whether the woman 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