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Table 9: Regressions of wife’s obesity and wife’s underweight on husband’s
obesity and other characteristics of wife and husband by marital duration.
PSID: 1999-2007. Wife’s age: 20-50.
Wife’s Obesity
(1 if Wife’s BMI ≥ 30,
0 otherwise)
Wife’s Underweight
(1 if Wife’s BMI < 18.5,
0 otherwise)
Marital duration ≤ 3 years > 3 years ≤ 3 years > 3 years
Husband’s Obesity 0.184*** 0.118*** −0.062*** −0.012
(0.049) (0.023) (0.018) (0.010)
Wife’s Age −0.001 0.001 −0.003** −0.001*
(0.002) (0.001) (0.001) (0.001)
Wife’s Log Earnings −0.002 −0.002 −0.001 −0.001
(0.004) (0.002) (0.004) (0.001)
Husband’s Log Earnings −0.075*** −0.066*** −0.003 0.015*
(0.025) (0.013) (0.013) (0.008)
Number of children −0.020 0.002 −0.003 −0.004
(0.014) (0.009) (0.012) (0.004)
Wife’s Good Health −0.252*** −0.161*** −0.045 −0.013
(0.090) (0.048) (0.055) (0.017)
Husband’s Good Health −0.059 −0.094* −0.009 0.004
(0.091) (0.048) (0.055) (0.016)
Wife’s Education 0.002 −0.014*** −0.003 −0.001
(0.009) (0.006) (0.004) (0.002)
Husband’s Education −0.021** −0.004 −0.004 −0.000
(0.010) (0.005) (0.004) (0.003)
N 1,262 5,324 1,262 5,324
R 2 0.33 0.14 0.29 0.04
Clusters 954 1,921 954 1,921
% of obese wives 15% 17% -- --
% of obese husbands 23% 26% -- --
% of underweight wives -- -- 4.3% 3.4%
% of underweight husbands -- -- 0.7% 0.3%
Note: Heteroskedasticity robust standard errors clustered at the household head
level are reported in parentheses. All regressions include state, year, and state-byyear
dummies. Observations have been weighed using family weights.
*** p-value < 0.01, ** p-value < 0.05, * p-value < 0.1
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