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Ben Roth retweeted
17 Aug 2023
A new DP is out: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…. @IsabellaMasetto and @diegoubfal reproduced "Targeting High Ability Entrepreneurs Using Community Information" by Reshmaan Hussam, Natalia Rigol and @BenRothEcon.
The paper’s results are robust to all robustness checks. See below!
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Did mobile money transfers during COVID-19 increase social distancing in Ghana?
A new paper with @deankarlan, @RdoseiOsei, Isaac Osei-Akoto, @BenRothEcon, and @chrisudry. 1/
Experimental evidence that mobile money transfers in Ghana during COVID-19 increased food expenditure by 8%, income by 20%, and a social distancing index by 0.08 standard deviations, from @deankarlan, @hmmlowe, Darko Osei, Osei-Akoto, Roth, and @chrisudry nber.org/papers/w30309
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Why are there so many small-scale vendors in developing country cities?
Some new evidence with Banerjee, @GregFisch, @deankarlan, @BenRothEcon: mattlowe.site/wp-content/upl… 1/
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18 Oct 2021
Hey #econtwitter,
Natalia Rigol and I are developing an MBA class where we introduce students to tools from applied econometrics for assessing social impact. 1/3
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18 Oct 2021
We are looking for pointers to good DiD and RD papers that assess programs that could be implemented by a nonprofit or business (so not pure public policy evals but most other things would count). Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! 2/3
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18 Oct 2021
We’d also gladly accept any advice/tactics about teaching applied econometrics to MBA students :) 3/3
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Ben Roth retweeted
28 Jun 2020
COVID Lockdown: How India's Food Supply Chain First Tightened and then Recovered
@hmmlowe of @UBC and @BenRothEcon of @HBS have a detailed piece, well worth reading
thewire.in/economy/lockdown-… via @thewire_in
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Food supply to 1800 markets across India has fallen by roughly 60% since the lockdown, with some signs of improvement in recent weeks. More from work with @BenRothEcon and @nadhanael: [1/N]
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India's lockdown has led to ~50% drop in fruit and vegetable volume at Azadpur wholesale market in Delhi (Asia's largest wholesale fruit and veg market), though some signs of recovery. More from work with @BenRothEcon, @nadhanael: [1/N]
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