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Table 3 Regression Results of Health Outcomes on Grocery to Restaurant Sales Taxes Ratio

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

Tax Ratio: (1 + Grocery Tax)/(1 + Restaurant Tax)

2.639

5.144***

4.760***

1.498

1.603***

1.296**

(1.721)

(1.263)

(1.169)

(1.026)

(0.594)

(0.571)

Observations

9779

9779

9779

9779

9779

9779

R-squared

0.036

0.909

0.910

0.028

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