Economic policy and the double burden of malnutrition: cross-national longitudinal analysis of minimum wage and women's underweight and obesity.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine changes in minimum wage associated with changes in women's weight status.

Design

Longitudinal study of legislated minimum wage levels (per month, purchasing power parity-adjusted, 2011 constant US dollar values) linked to anthropometric and sociodemographic data from multiple Demographic and Health Surveys (2000-2014). Separate multilevel models estimated associations of a $10 increase in monthly minimum wage with the rate of change in underweight and obesity, conditioning on individual and country confounders. Post-estimation analysis computed predicted mean probabilities of being underweight or obese associated with higher levels of minimum wage at study start and end.

Setting

Twenty-four low-income countries.

Subjects

Adult non-pregnant

SUBMITTER: Conklin AI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10261645 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature