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Minimum Wages around Birth and Child Health

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  • Muhammad Farhan Majid
  • Jere R Behrman

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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.

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  • Muhammad Farhan Majid & Jere R Behrman, 2023. "Minimum Wages around Birth and Child Health," The World Bank Economic Review, World Bank, vol. 37(3), pages 351-365.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:wbecrv:v:37:y:2023:i:3:p:351-365.
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