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

Banerjee, Abhijit - 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 - 2013

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 - 2016

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

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Federal Reserve Structure and the Production of Monetary Policy Ideas

Bordo, Michael D.; Prescott, Edward Simpson - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We evaluate the decentralized structure of the Federal Reserve System as a mechanism for generating and processing new ideas on monetary policy over the 1960 - 2000 period. We document the introduction of monetarism, rational expectations, credibility, transparency, and other monetary policy...

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Organizational Frictions and Increasing Returns to Automation : Lessons from AT&T in the Twentieth Century

Feigenbaum, James J.; Gross, Daniel P. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

AT&T was the largest U.S. firm for most of the 20th century. Telephone operators once comprised over 50% of its workforce, but in the late 1910s it initiated a decades-long process of automating telephone operation with mechanical call switching--a technology first invented in the 1880s. We...

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The Economic History of the <i>American Economic Review</i> : A Century's Explosion of Economics Research

Margo, Robert A. - 2010

Written in celebration of the upcoming 100th anniversary of the <i>American Economic Review</i> (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. - 2004

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

Lamoreaux, Naomi R. - 2002

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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The Development of Corporate Governance in Toulouse : 1372-1946

Bris, David Le - 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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