Differential relationship between state-level minimum wage and infant mortality risk among US infants born to white and black mothers.

Natalie A RosenquistDaniel M CookAmy EhntholtAnthony OmayePeter MuennigRoman Pabayo

Published in: Journal of epidemiology and community health (2019)

Increasing the minimum wage might be beneficial to infant health, especially among non-Hispanic black infants, and thus might decrease the racial disparity in infant mortality.

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