Could the minimum wage policy reduce food insecurity among households of formal workers in Indonesia?

Table 3 The effect of the minimum wage across the distribution of food security indicators

Decile	Per capita calorie intake (kcal)		Per capita consumption of fruits and vegetables (kg)		SIDD
	Coefficients	Value at p^th decile	Coefficients	Value at p^th decile	Coefficients	Value at p^th decile
	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)	(6)
1	57.69	1463.19	0.01	0.09	0.02**	0.54
2	103.00**	1658.10	0.01	0.12	0.02*	0.61
3	88.35***	1810.89	0.02	0.14	0.01*	0.64
4	55.36	1951.11	0.02	0.17	0.01**	0.67
5	51.15	2092.10	0.01	0.19	0.02***	0.70
6	33.18	2237.25	0.02	0.22	0.01**	0.73
7	16.96	2409.75	0.02	0.26	0.01*	0.75
8	17.36	2631.75	0.03**	0.31	0.01	0.77
9	− 8.618	2993.71	0.03*	0.40	− 0.004	0.80

Variable of interest: real provincial minimum wage (in 100000 Rp)
Bootstrapped standard errors (100 replications). t-statistics: * p < 0.1, ** p < 0.05, *** p < 0.01. The total observation is 15545 households. Control variables at the provincial level: food inflation, economic growth, and neighboring real minimum wage. Control variables at the household level: location, sex of HH head, marital status, age of HH head, home ownership, social assistance program recipient, number of HH member, spouse education, per capita real expenditure, and share of food expenditure. Fixed effect: province and year.

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