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

Adhvaryu, Achyuta; Bednar, Steven; Nyshadham, Anant; Molina, Teresa; Nguyen, Quynh T.

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“…For example, Nilsson () examines a change in alcohol policy that affected binge drinking, Schwandt (2017) examines the impact of contracting influenza during pregnancy (which is preventable by vaccination), and Isen, Rossin‐Slater, and Walker () examine the long‐term effect of having been exposed to higher levels of particulate air pollution in utero or in early childhood. In a developing country context, several authors have demonstrated the effects of reducing infectious disease (Baird, Hamory Hicks, Kremer, & Miguel, ; Beach, Ferrie, Saavedra, & Troesken, ; Bhalotra & Venkataramani, ) and improving nutrition (Adhvaryu, Bednar, Molina, Nguyen, & Nyshadham, ). In an important study, Gertler et al () examined the importance of attending to psychological needs by training mothers to provide psychosocial stimulation.…”

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Child health as human capital

Currie

2020

Health Economics

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Child health is increasingly understood to be a critical form of human capital, but only recently have we begun to understand how valuable it is and how its development could be better supported. This article provides an overview of recent work that demonstrates the key role of public insurance in supporting longer term human capital development and points to improvements in child mental health as an especially important mechanism.

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Child health as human capital

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2020

Health Economics

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“…The indirect benefits for children from having healthier parents is discussed in Section 5.2.16 A similar specification is used byAdhvaryu, Bednar, Molina, Nguyen, and Nyshadham (2014) in a study of the effect of salt iodization on labor force participation.17 The results are similar if we analyze the number of years an individual was exposed to the tuberculosis control campaign since birth.…”

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Disease Control and Inequality Reduction: Evidence from a Tuberculosis Testing and Vaccination Campaign

Bütikofer

Salvanes

2020

The Review of Economic Studies

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This article examines the economic impact of a tuberculosis control program launched in Norway in 1948. In the 1940s, Norway had one of the highest tuberculosis infection rates in Europe, affecting about 85% of the inhabitants. To lower the disease burden, the Norwegian government launched a large-scale tuberculosis testing and vaccination campaign that substantially reduced tuberculosis infection rates among children. We find that cohorts in school during and after the campaign in municipalities with high tuberculosis prevalence gained more in terms of education, earnings, longevity, and height following this public health intervention. Furthermore, the gains from the disease control program are not limited to the initially treated cohorts but also affect their children. The results also suggest that individuals from a low socioeconomic background benefited more from the intervention and we present new evidence that a narrowing of the gap in childhood health can lead to a reduction in socioeconomic inequalities in adulthood.

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“…Both Adhvaryu et al . () and Feyrer et al . () investigate the effects of salt iodization programs in the United States using fixed‐effects methods similar to FRT.…”

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Fetal Iodine Deficiency and Schooling: A Replication of Field, Robles, and Torero (2009)*

Bengtsson

Sävje

Peterson

2019

Scandinavian J Economics

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Scholars have theorized that congenital health endowment is an important determinant of economic outcomes later in a person's life. Field, Robles, and Torero (2009, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 1, 140–169) find large increases in educational attainment caused by a reduction of fetal iodine deficiency following a set of iodine supplementation programs in Tanzania. We revisit the Tanzanian iodine programs with a narrow and wide replication of the study by Field et al. We are able to exactly replicate the original results. We find, however, that the findings are sensitive to alternative specification choices and sample restrictions. We try to address some of these concerns in the wide replication; we increase the sample size fourfold, and we improve the precision of the treatment variable by incorporating new institutional and medical insights. Despite the improvements, no effect is found. We conclude that the available data do not provide sufficient power to detect a possible effect, as treatment assignment cannot be measured with sufficient precision.

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

Cited by 10 publications

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Child health as human capital

Child health as human capital

Disease Control and Inequality Reduction: Evidence from a Tuberculosis Testing and Vaccination Campaign

Fetal Iodine Deficiency and Schooling: A Replication of Field, Robles, and Torero (2009)*

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