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SIPA Faculty
Douglas Almond
International Affairs Building, Room 1402A
Assistant Professor of International and Public Affairs and Economics
Phone: 212-854-7248
da2152@columbia.edu
Biography:
My new biography is still a work in progress.
Research Interests: Health Economics, Education, China
Publications:
Completed Papers
- Civil Rights, the War on Poverty, and Black-White Convergence in Infant Mortality in the Rural South and Mississippi
with Kenneth Chay and Michael Greenstone. Revised & resubmitted at The American Economic Review - Son-biased Sex Ratios in the 2000 United States Census
with Lena Edlund. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (March 2008) - Trivers-Willard at Birth and One Year: Evidence from U.S. Natality Data 1983-2001
with Lena Edlund. Proceedings of the Royal Society B| Biological Sciences (August 2007) - Is the 1918 Influenza Pandemic Over? Long-term Effects of In Utero Influenza Exposure in the Post-1940 U.S. Population
Journal of Political Economy (August 2006) - The Costs of Low Birth Weight
with Kenneth Chay and David Lee. The Quarterly Journal of Ecnomics (August 2005) - The 1918 Influenza Pandemic and Subsequent Health Outcomes: An Analysis of SIPP Data
with Bhashkar Mazumder. American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings (May 2005)
Working Papers
- After Midnight: A Regression Discontinuity Design in Length of Postpartum Hospital Stays
with Joseph Doyle. - Chernobyl's Subclinical Legacy: Prenatal Exposure to Radioactive Fallout and School Outcomes in Sweden
with Lena Edlund & Mårten Palme. [spread of Chernobyl plume across Europe - IRSN video] - Long-term Effects of the 1959-1961 China Famine: Mainland China and Hong Kong
with Lena Edlund, Hongbin Li, and Junsen Zhang. - Prenatal Nutrition and Adult Outcomes: The Effect of Maternal Fasting During Ramadan
with Bhashkar Mazumder. - The Impact of the Food Stamp Program on Infant Outcomes
with Hilary W. Hoynes & Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach.