Majid Muhammad Farhan, Behrman Jere R
American Institutes for Research.
University of Pennsylvania.
World Bank Econ Rev. 2023 Apr 3;37(3):351-365. doi: 10.1093/wber/lhad004. eCollection 2023 Aug.
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.
本文研究了印度尼西亚出生前后最低工资水平对五岁以下儿童年龄别身高Z评分（HAZ）的影响。利用印度尼西亚不同省份实际最低工资的年度波动差异，研究发现，在出生年份经历最低工资上涨的儿童在其生命的前五年中HAZ更高。估计的影响基于具有生母固定效应和出生年份固定效应的双重差分模型，并且在纳入多个随时间变化的因素后依然稳健。这些影响在男童中尤为显著。
