The effect of an increased minimum wage on infant mortality and birth weight

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 106, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 1514-1516

  Komro, Kelli A ^a   Livingston, Melvin D ^b   Markowitz, Sara ^c   Wagenaar, Alexander C ^d  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRTH WEIGHT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; SALARY AND FRINGE BENEFIT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES;

BIRTH WEIGHT; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; SALARIES AND FRINGE BENEFITS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84978254071     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2016.303268     Document Type: Article

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