Minimum Wages around Birth and Child Health
利用印度尼西亚各省最低工资的年度波动，研究发现出生年份最低工资上涨的儿童在五岁前身高年龄别Z分数更高，对男童影响尤为显著。
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.