Douglas Almond
Affiliation
- Faculty Fellow, Department of Economics
School of International and Public Affairs
Research
Douglas Almond is an assistant professor in the Department of International and Public Affairs and the Economics Department. His primary research area is health economics, with a particular interest in the role of early childhood health. His research includes "Is the 1918 Influenza Pandemic Over?," "Long-term Effects of In Utero Influenza Exposure in the Post-1940 U.S. Population" and "Civil Rights, the War on Poverty, and Black-White Convergence in Infant Mortality in Mississippi." In May 2002, he received the economics departmental award for research in public policy from the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Almond worked as a staff economist at the Council of Economic Advisers during the Clinton administration and is a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
He received his BA from Carleton College (Northfield, Minnesota, 1993) and his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley (2002).
Selected Work
- "The Costs of Low Birth Weight." (with Kenneth Chay and David Lee, May 2004). Quarterly Journal of Economics.
- "The Long-Term Health Effects of Fetal Exposure to the 1918 Influenza Pandemic: An Analysis of SIPP Data." (with Bhash Mazumder) American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings.
- "Is the 1918 Influenza Pandemic Over? Long-term Effects of In Utero Influenza Exposure in the Post-1940 U.S. Population." (December 2003).
- "Civil Rights, the War on Poverty, and Black-White Convergence in Infant Mortality in Mississippi." (with Kenneth Chay and Michael Greenstone, November 2003). Revision and resubmission requested at the American Economic Review.
- "The Long-Run and Intergenerational Impact of Poor Infant Health: Evidence from Cohorts Born During the Civil Rights Era." (with Kenneth Chay, April 2003).
- "Cohort Differences in Health: A Duration Analysis Using the National Longitudinal Mortality Study." Population Research Center, University of Chicago Discussion Paper Series: 2002-13.
