“Increasing the minimum wage will reduce infant deaths, study says.”

Research from Maxwell’s Shannon Monnat, associate professor of sociology, Jennifer Karas Montez, professor of sociology, and Douglas Wolf, professor of public administration and international affairs, was featured by Study Finds in the article “Increasing the minimum wage will reduce infant deaths, study says.” Their research focuses on the impact of a lower minimum wage on the health of infants, demonstrating that “for each extra dollar added on to the U.S. minimum wage, annual infant deaths in major U.S. cities drop by 1.8 percent.”