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- Title
Minimum Wages around Birth and Child Health.
- Authors
Majid, Muhammad Farhan; Behrman, Jere R
- Abstract
This paper studies the effects of minimum wages in Indonesia around the time of birth on child height-for-age Z scores (HAZ) up to five years of age. Using variations in annual fluctuations in real minimum wages in different Indonesian provinces, it finds that children exposed to increases in minimum wages in their birth years have higher HAZ in the first five years of their lives. The estimated impacts are based on difference-in-differences models with biological-mother fixed effects and year-of-birth fixed effects and are robust to inclusion of multiple time-varying factors. The impacts are prominent particularly among male children.
- Subjects
INDONESIA; MINIMUM wage; CHILDBIRTH; REAL wages; FIXED effects model; CHILDREN'S health
- Publication
World Bank Economic Review, 2023, Vol 37, Issue 3, p351
- ISSN
0258-6770
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/wber/lhad004