Table 4: Results by Gender Ages 12-20.

NLSY97: BMI Regression for Adolescents by Gender
-	Male		Female
-	Ages 12-20		Ages 12-20
-	Model Fit
AIC	-444.69	-	-418.14	-
Gen. Chi2	1.83	-	1.43	-
N	9012	-	8579	-
Results
Variable	Parameter	Std Err	Parameter	Std Err
Intercept	2.84***	0.217	2.54***	0.198
Aget	0.0024***	0.001	0.0019***	0.001
Black	0.0064	0.020	0.11***	0.021
Hispanic	0.02	0.022	0.024	0.023
Household Sizet	-0.003	0.004	-0.0011	0.004
Poverty/Income Ratiot	-0.0058	0.007	-0.00158	0.005
Urbant	-0.0016	0.016	-0.0089	0.017
Northeastt	0.011	0.020	0.013	0.023
Southt	-0.0026	0.017	0.019	0.018
Age Sext	-0.012***	0.004	-0.0051	0.004
General Healtht	-0.0099	0.007	0.021***	0.007
Years Smokingt	-0.024***	0.006	-0.002	0.007
Stay Same Weightt	0.088***	0.016	0.11**	0.026
Lose Weightt	0.208***	0.016	0.24***	0.027
Eating Disordert	-0.034	0.049	0.026	0.030
Mother's Education Less than HSt	-0.015	0.020	0.036	0.023
Mother's Education HSt	-0.033*	0.017	0.025	0.018
Dependent Variable: lnBMIt
Source: NLSY 1997		-	-	-
Statistical Significance: * (0.10), ** (0.05), *** (0.01)