The effect of gender-specific labor market conditions on children’s weight

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Table 4 Robustness checks of results in Table 2

	(1)	(2)	(3)
	BMI Z-scores	Overweight/ Obesity	Obesity
Panel A: County specific linear time trend
Predicted employment growth rates (Female)	0.0088** (0.0043)	0.0036* (0.0019)	0.0006 (0.0015)
Predicted employment growth rates (Male)	0.0004 (0.0020)	0.0001 (0.0009)	0.0012* (0.0007)
N	1,509,740	1,509,740	1,509,740
Panel B: Regional predicted employment growth rates
Predicted employment growth rates (Female)	0.0138* (0.0058)	0.0055** (0.0020)	0.0023*** (0.0002)
Predicted employment growth rates (Male)	−0.0022 (0.0021)	0.0010 (0.0011)	0.0005 (0.0006)
N	1,509,740	1,509,740	1,509,740
Panel C: Non-movers
Predicted employment growth rates (Female)	0.0132*** (0.0036)	0.0049* (0.0024)	0.0028** (0.0011)
Predicted employment growth rates (Male)	−0.0037 (0.0026)	−0.0010 (0.0010)	− 0.0007 (0.0008)
N	1,298,450	1,298,450	1,298,450

Note: Regional predicted employment growth rates are defined as the average value of the rates of counties in that region. In region level analysis, we use region fixed effect, and robust standard errors are clustered by region and year. Robust standard errors are clustered by individual in other panels. Overweight/obesity in column (2), and obesity in column (3) indicate probability. * p < 0.1, ** p < 0.05, *** p < 0.01

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