Ben Roth

Economist

[I4R @I4Replication]

A new DP is out: https://t.co/99o3fV5zus. @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!

[Matt Lowe @hmmlowe]

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/

[Matt Lowe @hmmlowe]

Why are there so many small-scale vendors in developing country cities?

Some new evidence with Banerjee, @GregFisch, @deankarlan, @BenRothEcon: https://t.co/ljuP4a1dso 1/

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@cerenbaysan Thanks!!

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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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@LauraBoudreau @mike_luca @RDMetcalfe @mslater_johnson @steve_tadelis Thanks for the leads! We'll reach out in the near future :-)

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@dbroockman @peterlorentzen Awesome, thanks!

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@Susan_Athey Will look into this. Thanks so much!

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@jondr44 👍 👍

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We’d also gladly accept any advice/tactics about teaching applied econometrics to MBA students :) 3/3

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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

[Siddharth @svaradarajan]

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

https://t.co/gBMVlFttCR via @thewire_in

[Matt Lowe @hmmlowe]

🍎Good news from India🍎
One worry has been that India's strict lockdown would lead to more deaths from starvation than from COVID-19. But one positive sign is that by the end of May food supply chains had largely recovered. Thread: [1/N]

[Matt Lowe @hmmlowe]

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]

[Ben Roth @BenRothEcon]

@hmmlowe and I turned our tweet into an article for The Wire: https://t.co/79bq6vj6Tn

Special thanks to @nadhanael for joint work and
@DhirSimranjeet and @Toshan15566914 for field assistance!

[Matt Lowe @hmmlowe]

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]