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Minimum Wages and the Health of Hispanic Women

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  • Averett, Susan L.

    (Lafayette College)

  • Smith, Julie K.

    (Lafayette College)

  • Wang, Yang

    (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Abstract

States are increasingly resorting to raising the minimum wage to boost the earnings of those at the bottom of the income distribution. In this paper, we examine the effects of minimum wage increases on the health of low-educated Hispanic women, who constitute a growing part of the U.S. labor force, are disproportionately represented in minimum wage jobs and typically have less access to health care. Using a difference-in-differences identification strategy and data drawn from the Behavior Risk Factor Surveillance Survey and the Current Population Survey from the years 1994–2015, we find little evidence that low-educated Hispanic women likely affected by minimum wage increases experience any changes in health status, access to care, or use of preventive care.

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  • Averett, Susan L. & Smith, Julie K. & Wang, Yang, 2017. "Minimum Wages and the Health of Hispanic Women," IZA Discussion Papers 10916, IZA Network @ LISER.
    • Handle: RePEc:iza:izadps:dp10916
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    3. Averett, Susan L. & Smith, Julie K. & Wang, Yang, 2019. "Minimum Wages and the Health and Access to Care of Immigrants' Children," IZA Discussion Papers 12606, IZA Network @ LISER.
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    JEL classification:

    • J15 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
    • I12 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Behavior
    • I13 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Insurance, Public and Private
    • I14 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health and Inequality

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