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Movies, Margins and Marketing : Encouraging the Adoption of Iron-Fortified Salt

Banerjee, Abhijit V. - 2015

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 …

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The Cognitive Effects of Micronutrient Deficiency : Evidence from Salt Iodization in the United States

Feyrer, James; Politi, Dimitra - 2021

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 …

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Can Iron-Fortified Salt Control Anemia? Evidence from Two Experiments in Rural Bihar

Banerjee, Abhijit V. - 2016

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

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When it Rains it Pours : The Long-Run Economic Impacts of Salt Iodization in the United States

Adhvaryu, Achyuta - 2018

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

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The Economic History of the "American Economic Review" : A Century's Explosion of Economics Research

Margo, Robert A. - 2010

Written in celebration of the upcoming 100th anniversary of the American Economic Review (February 2011), this paper recounts the history of the journal. The recounting has an analytic core that sees the American Economic Association as an organization supplying goods and services to its...

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Corporate Ownership in France : The Importance of History

Murphy, Antoin E. - 2009

This paper attempts to show the importance of history in influencing the structure of corporate ownership in France. The strong concentration of family ownership in France is traced to historical weaknesses in the money and capital markets that forced families to have recourse to self-financing....

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Is the U.S. Public Corporation in Trouble?

Kahle, Kathleen M. - 2016

We examine the current state of the U.S. public corporation and how it has evolved over the last 40 years. After falling by 50 percent since its peak in 1997, the number of public corporations is now smaller than 40 years ago. These corporations are now much larger and over the last twenty years...

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The Development of Corporate Governance in Toulouse : 1372-1946

Le Bris, David - 2015

We document a sequence of institutional innovations associated with the corporate form over the course of several centuries in Toulouse. Shareholding companies that began in the 11th century formally incorporated themselves into two large-scale, widely held firms by 1373. In the years that...

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Beyond Markets and Hierarchies : Toward a New Synthesis of American Business History

Lamoreaux, Naomi R.; Raff, Daniel M. G.; Temin, Peter - 2021

We sketch a new synthesis of American business history to replace (and subsume) that put forward by Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., most famously in his book The Visible Hand (1977). We see the broader subject as the history of the institutions of coordination in the economy, with the management of...

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How Much Does Size Erode Mutual Fund Performance? A Regression Discontinuity Approach

Reuter, Jonathan - 2010

The level of diseconomies of scale in asset management has important implications for tests of manager skill and the expected level of performance persistence. To identify the causal impact of fund size on future returns, we exploit the fact that small differences in returns can cause discrete...

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