In-utero exposure to local COVID-19 incidence and infant birthweight in Brazil

Srikant Devaraj, Pankaj C. Patel and Igor Pereira

Applied Economics, 2022, vol. 54, issue 38, 4449-4464

Abstract: In this article, we investigate whether in-utero exposure to municipal-level COVID-19 incidence rates in Brazil was associated with lower infant birth weight. To lower endogeneity related to conception during COVID-19, we include infants who were conceived before and born after, the first official case of COVID-19 in Brazil, 26 February 2020. Using the administrative natality data of infants, in-utero exposure to local COVID-19 incidence rate did not affect infant birth weight, and the estimates are robust to heterogeneities by mother’s demographic and socioeconomic characteristics. Findings have implications for the effect of in-utero exposure to local COVID-19 incidence rates and birth weight.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2022.2030461

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