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Table 2 Regression Results of Health Outcomes on Respective Grocery and Restaurant Sales Taxes

From: Grocery food taxes and U.S. county obesity and diabetes rates

Dependent variable: Obesity Prevalence (unit: %, mean: 30.419, S.D.: 4.840) Diabetes Prevalence (unit: %, mean: 9.305, S.D.: 2.122)

 

Obesity

Diabetes

 

1

2

3

4

5

6

Total Grocery Sales Tax Rate (%)

0.707***

0.636***

0.588***

0.400***

0.252**

0.215**

 

(0.203)

(0.153)

(0.154)

(0.118)

(0.108)

(0.098)

Total Restaurant Sales Tax Rate (%)

0.369*

−0.147

−0.158

0.290***

−0.134

− 0.127

 

(0.194)

(0.139)

(0.127)

(0.096)

(0.111)

(0.101)

Observations

9779

9779

9779

9779

9779

9779

R-squared

0.129

0.909

0.910

0.227

0.927

0.928

Period FE (m_period = 6)

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

County FE (m_county = 1858)

  

Y

  

Y

Controls

 

Y

Y

 

Y

Y

  1. Note: Standard errors are in parentheses. *, **, and *** denote statistically significance at the 10, 5, and 1% levels, respectively