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Tim Halliday
Tim Halliday is an empirical microeconomist who works at the intersection of health and labour economics. He served as the Chair of the Department of Economics at the University of Hawaii at Manoa from 2016 to 2020. He is also a research fellow at UHERO in Honolulu and the IZA in Bonn. His research primarily focuses on transmissions of economic status across generations, the socioeconomic determinants of health capital, the effects of health insurance on medical consumption for poorer populations, and the health impacts of air pollution. His work has been published in the Economic Journal, the European Economic Review, the Journal of Public Economics, and the Journal of Applied Econometrics and has been featured in numerous media outlets including Politico and USA Today. He has also contributed as an opinion writer to the Wall Street Journal.
He earned his PhD in Economics from Princeton.
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Did Covid-19 pandemic increase incidence of low-birth-weight among newborns?
Globally, one in four babies are born with low birth weight, with long-term impacts on health and economic outcomes. This article uses Indian data from 2019-2021 to analyse the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on birth outcomes, given the disruption of essential maternal and neonatal services. It finds that infants born post-pandemic had 45 grams lower birth weight, with 3% greater incidence of low birth weight than infants born before the pandemic.
