Minimum Wages Around Birth and Child Health

• Tác giả: Muhammad Farhan Majid
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 362.71 Direct relief
• Thông tin xuất bản: Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank, 2024
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 320455
• Chủ đề: 1. CHILD NUTRITION; 2. EARLY-LIFE ENVIRONMENT; 3. INCOME; 4. MINIMUM WAGES; 5. STUNTING

Tóm tắt

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.