Association of State Minimum Wage Rates and Health in Working-Age Adults Using the National Health Interview Survey.

ABSTRACT: States adopt minimum wages to improve workers' economic circumstances and well-being. Many studies, but not all, find evidence of health benefits from higher minimum wages. This study used a rigorous "triple difference" strategy to identify the associations between state minimum wages and adult obesity, body mass index (weight (kg)/height (m)2), hypertension, diabetes, fair or poor health, and serious psychological distress. National Health Interview Survey data (United States, 2008-2015) on adults aged 25-64 years (n = 131,430) were linked to state policies to estimate the prevalence odds ratio or mean difference in these outcomes associated with a $1 increase in current and 2-year lagged minimum wage among less-educated adults overall and by sex, race/ethnicity, and age. In contrast to p

SUBMITTER: Buszkiewicz JH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7946793 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature