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

Thanks to Martha Bailey, Prashant Bharadwaj, Mark Duggan, Jeanne Lafortune, Claudia Olivetti, Dimitra Politi, Paul Rhode, John Shea, Atheen Venkataramani, and David Weil for helpful conversations and seminar audiences at the NBER (CS; CH), Stanford SITE, Maryland, Michigan, Michigan State, Appalachian State, Indian School of Business, NEUDC, and SOLE for useful comments. Adhvaryu gratefully acknowledges funding from the NIH/NICHD (5K01HD071949). Molina gratefully acknowledges funding from the USC Provost’s Ph.D. Fellowship, the USC Dornsife INET graduate student fellowship, and the Oakley Endowed Fellowship. Thanks to David Carel for excellent research assistance. All errors are our own. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.