Fast Food Consumption and Food Prices: Evidence from Panel Data on 5th and 8th Grade Children

Table 1

Summary statistics.

	Mean (SD)
Outcome variable
Number of times fast food consumed in past 7 days	2.468 (3.955)
Price measures
Price of fast food ($1982–84)	2.662 (0.168)
Price of food at home ($1982–84)	1.185 (0.136)
Contextual factors
Median household income in $10,000 ($2000)	4.756 (1.838)
Fast food restaurants per 10,000 per capita	3.598 (3.000)
Individual, household and local area characteristics
Female	0.502 (0.500)
Male	0.498 (0.500)
White	0.665 (0.472)
African American	0.092 (0.290)
Hispanic	0.152 (0.359)
Other	0.069 (0.253)
More than one race	0.022 (0.147)
Mother completed less than high school	0.127 (0.332)
Mother completed at least high school	0.237 (0.426)
Mother completed at least some college	0.335 (0.472)
Mother completed bachelor’s degree or more	0.301 (0.459)
Parental income 0–20 K	0.106 (0.307)
Parental income 20 K–35 K	0.152 (0.359)
Parental income 35–50 K	0.159 (0.366)
Parental income 50–75 K	0.199 (0.399)
Parental income 75–100 K	0.168 (0.374)
Parental income 100 K+	0.216 (0.412)
8th grade round (year = 2007)	0.513 (0.500)
Household residence urban	0.673 (0.469)
Household residence suburban	0.134 (0.341)
Household residence rural	0.193 (0.394)
Days per week eat breakfast with parents	3.497 (2.399)
Days per week eat dinner with parents	5.287 (1.752)
Hours of television child watches weekly	21.94 (15.18)

Notes: 𝑁=11,700. SD=standarddeviation.