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Michel Boudreaux, Health Policy and Management, and Anuj Gangopadhyaya, Urban Institute

Are Enrollment Gains From Conditional Cash Transfers Sustained After Program Rollback? Evidence From Mexico

Seeds of Unity: Examining the Link Between Joint Land Titles and Women's Status in Western Uganda

Who Returns to Mexico? A Human Capital Selection Approach to Rural and Urban Mexican Undocumented Immigrant Return versus Aging in the United States

Migration-driven population recovery in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina

What Works and For Whom? Effectiveness and Efficiency of School Capital Investments Across The U.S.

Investing in Innovation: Models and Measurement with Intangible Capital

CAFe Speaker Series: “Equity in Public Access to Research Results; Case Study From National Agriculture Library”

Complex interrelationships between race, sex, obesity and depression have been well-documented. Because of differences in associations between socioeconomic status (SES) and health by race, determining the role of SES may help to further explicate these relationships. The aim of this study was to determine how race and income interact with obesity on depression. Combining data from the 2007-2014 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, depressive symptoms was measured with the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 and obesity was assessed as body mass index ≥30 kg/m 2 . Three-way interactions between race, income and obesity on depressive symptoms were determined using ordered regression models. Significant interactions between race, middle income and obesity (OR = 0.66, 95% CI = 0.22-1.96) suggested that, among white women, obesity is positively associated with depressive symptoms across income levels, while obesity was not associated with depression for African American women at any income level. Obesity was only associated with depressive symptoms among middle-income white men (OR = 1.44, 95% CI = 1.02-2.03) and among high-income African American men (OR = 4.65, 95% CI = 1.48-14.59). The associations between obesity and depressive symptoms vary greatly by race and income. Findings from this study underscore the importance of addressing obesity and depression among higher income African American men.