Minimum wages and the health of immigrants’ children

Susan L. Averett, Julie Smith and Yang Wang

Applied Economics Letters, 2021, vol. 28, issue 11, 894-901

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 article, we examine the effects of minimum wage increases on the health of immigrants’ children. Their parents are disproportionately represented in minimum wage jobs and are a growing part of the US labour force. Using a difference-in-differences identification strategy and data from the National Health Interview Survey from 2000 to 2015, we examine whether children of low-educated immigrants experience any changes in their health when the minimum wage increases. We find no evidence that this is the case despite a number of robustness checks.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2020.1784832

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