The Effects of Minimum Wages on the Health of Working Teenagers

Susan Averett (), Julie Smith and Yang Wang ()
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Yang Wang: University of Wisconsin-Madison

No 10185, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This paper examines the effect of minimum wage increases on the self-reported health of teenage workers. We use a difference-in-differences estimation strategy and data from the Current Population Survey, and disaggregate the sample by race/ethnicity and gender to uncover the differential effects of changes in the minimum wage on health. We find that white women are more likely to report better health with a minimum wage increase while Hispanic men report worse health.

Keywords: self-reported health; minimum wage; teenagers (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I10 I18 J15 J16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 17 pages
Date: 2016-09
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dem, nep-hea and nep-hme
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Published - published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2017, 24 (16), 1127 - 1130

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