Minimum wages and alcohol consumption: Evidence from Canadian longitudinal microdata
Besides our strongest finding of no evidence that minimum wages increase drinking overall, our findings can also be seen as consistent with earlier research on this same Canadian dataset that found minimum wage increases reduced stress in less-educated male workers.
Authors
- Yihong Bai (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5909-1993)
- Michael R. Veall (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-2800-1851)
Institutions
- Western University (CA)
- McMaster University (CA)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Economics & Human Biology
- Published
- 2024-12-19
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2024.101464
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.85