In 1924, The Morton Salt Company began nationwide distribution of iodine-fortified salt. Ac- cess to iodine, a key …

potential strategy to address iron deficiency anemia in rural areas: double fortified salt (DFS) - salt fortified with iron and …

the option to sell a new salt, fortified with both iron and iodine (and not just iodine) at 50% discount. Within treatment … of an "edutainment" movie on the benefits of double-fortified salt, a flyer informing households of the product … without intervention, three years after launch. For comparison, only about half of households given the salt for free actually …

common in the developed world until the introduction of iodized salt in the 1920s, is connected to low iodine levels in the … soil and water. We examine the impact of salt iodization on cognitive outcomes in the US by taking advantage of this … natural geographic variation. Salt was iodized over a very short period of time beginning in 1924. We use military data …

While most contemporary historians agree that the use of debt peonage as a coercive labor contract in Mexico was not … property rights were reallocated through land laws, and Mexico's economy became much more closely tied to the United States. In …

Mexico …

Variance decompositions of the Mexico-United States real exchange rate are examined using monthly data on consumer … tradable goods and nominal exchange rates holds only in periods in which Mexico was not under a regime of exchange …-rate management. In periods in the sample in which Mexico had a managed exchange-rate regime, the variability of prices of non …