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Douglas Almond

Professor of Economics and International and Public Affairs

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Focus areas: Health economics, environmental economics, labor economics, public policy 

Douglas Almond's primary research areas are health and applied microeconomics, with a particular interest in infant health and the environment. Almond previously served as a staff economist at the Council of Economic Advisers during the Clinton administration and studied the health effects of air pollution in China as a Fulbright scholar.

Almond received his BA from Carleton College in Minnesota and PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, where he received the departmental award for research on public policy.

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