Table 5: Results by Gender Ages 21-32.

NLSY97: BMI Regression for Adults by Gender
-	Male		Female
-	Ages 21-32		Ages 21-32
-	Model Fit
AIC	-19504.7	-	-15740.1	-
Gen. Chi2	29.94	-	37.53	-
N	8760	-	8190	-
Results
Variable	Parameter	Std Err	Parameter	Std Err
Intercept	2.972***	0.028	2.789***	0.038
Aget	0.0009***	0.000	0.00099***	0.000
Black	0.020*	0.010	0.102***	0.012
Hispanic	0.035***	0.011	0.032**	0.013
Household Sizet	0.0016***	0.001	0.0023***	0.001
Poverty/Income Ratiot	-0.00066	0.001	-0.0007	0.001
Urbant	0.00045	0.002	0.0053*	0.003
Northeastt	0.0022	0.006	0.0047	0.007
Southt	0.012***	0.004	-0.0002	0.005
Age Sext	-0.0022	0.002	-0.003	0.002
General Healtht	0.0064***	0.001	0.0089***	0.001
Years Smokingt	-0.0022***	0.001	0.00025	0.001
Stay Same Weightt	0.034***	0.003	0.081***	0.006
Lose Weightt	0.085***	0.003	0.150***	0.006
Eating Disordert	0.011	0.009	0.0047	0.011
Mother's Education Less than HSt	0.015	0.012	0.043***	0.014
Mother's Education HSt	0.016*	0.009	0.018*	0.011
Dependent Variable: lnBMIt
Source: NLSY 1997		-	-	-
Statistical Significance: * (0.10), ** (0.05), *** (0.01)