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 Ben Roth, Nadhanael: [1/N]

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 Ben Roth and Nadhanael: [1/N]

🍎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]

COVID Lockdown: How India's Food Supply Chain First Tightened and then Recovered Matt Lowe of University of British Columbia and Ben Roth of @HBS have a detailed piece, well worth reading thewire.in/economy/lockdo… via The Wire

Why are there so many small-scale vendors in developing country cities? Some new evidence with Banerjee, Greg Fischer, Dean Karlan, Ben Roth: mattlowe.site/wp-content/upl… 1/

Did mobile money transfers during COVID-19 increase social distancing in Ghana? A new paper with Dean Karlan, Robert Darko Osei, Isaac Osei-Akoto, Ben Roth, and Christopher Udry. 1/

A new DP is out: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…. Isabella Masetto and Diego Ubfal reproduced "Targeting High Ability Entrepreneurs Using Community Information" by Reshmaan Hussam, Natalia Rigol and Ben Roth. The paper’s results are robust to all robustness checks. See below!