COVID-19’s Impact on Farmers Market Sales in the Washington, D.C., Area

We use a sales database of farmers market vendors in the Washington, D.C., area to estimate how first half 2020 sales were impacted by the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. We use 2019 data as a counterfactual for sales that would have occurred in 2020 in the absence of COVID-19. For neighborhood wee...

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Autores principales: O’Hara, Jeffrey K., Woods, Timothy A., Dutton, Nony, Stavely, Nick
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2021
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7900660/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/aae.2020.37
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Sumario:We use a sales database of farmers market vendors in the Washington, D.C., area to estimate how first half 2020 sales were impacted by the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. We use 2019 data as a counterfactual for sales that would have occurred in 2020 in the absence of COVID-19. For neighborhood weekend markets that were able to remain open during the pandemic, the change in 2020 average sales between the winter and spring is between 75% and 79% lower than in 2019. Other farmers markets, particularly weekday markets in business districts, experienced delayed openings or were closed for the entire year.

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