We study the causal impact of the minimum wage on employment and welfare in Thailand using a difference in
difference approach that relies on exogenous policy variation in minimum wages across provinces. We find
that minimum-wage increases have small disemployment effects on female, elderly, and less-educated workers
and large positive effects on the wages of prime-age male workers. As such, increases in the minimum wage
are associated with increases in household consumption per capita in general, but the consumption increase is
greatest among those households around the median of the distribution. In fact, rises in the minimum wage
increased inequality in consumption per capita within the bottom half of the distribution.