In this paper, 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...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, raising the hospital bed capacity was essential to ‘flattening the curve.’ However, due to short-run stickiness in hospital bed capacity, operational flexibility in managing the relative bed allocation for COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 patients was the key to...