Fast Food Consumption and Food Prices: Evidence from Panel Data on 5th and 8th Grade Children
Table 2
Longitudinal regression estimates for individual level random effects model of the determinants of fast food consumption.
Consumption of Fast Food
(SE)
Price measures
Price of fast food
−0.527**
(0.241)
Price of food at home
0.175
(0.401)
Contextual factors
Median household income
−0.131***
(0.021)
Fast food restaurants
0.025**
(0.013)
Individual, household and local area characteristics
Female
−0.267***
(0.079)
African American
1.932***
(0.022)
Other
0.231
(0.141)
Hispanic
0.627***
(0.139)
More than one race
0.331
(0.242)
Mother completed high school
−0.221
(0.176)
Mother completed some college
−0.350**
(0.170)
Mother completed bachelors or more
−0.625***
(0.175)
Parental income 20–35 K
−0.635***
(0.207)
Parental income 35–50 K
−0.784***
(0.194)
Parental income 50–75 K
−0.825***
(0.195)
Parental income 75–100 K
−0.913***
(0.192)
Parental income 100 K+
−0.776***
(0.192)
8th grade round ()
−0.787**
(0.362)
Household residence is suburban
0.165
(0.123)
Household residence is rural
−0.085
(0.120)
Days per week eat breakfast with parents
−0.053***
(0.016)
Days per week eat dinner with parents
−0.054**
(0.023)
Hours of television child watches weekly
0.014***
(0.004)
Note: regressions include a full set of age dummy variables and average distance between closest ACCRA city and ECLS-K zip code. Standard errors (SE) are reported in parentheses and are robust and clustered at the home zip code level. **significance at 5%; ***significance at 1%. .
