Douglas Almond
Professor of International and Public Affairs and Economics
Personal Details
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. He co-directs SIPA's Center on Environmental Economics and Policy (CEEP) with Professor Robert Metcalfe. 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 in Economics from Carleton College in Minnesota and PhD in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley.
For more information, please visit Professor Almond's research website.
Education
- PhD in Economics, University of California, Berkeley
- BA, Carleton College
Honors and Awards
- National Science Foundation (award # SES-1658888), “Collaborative Research: Market Based Emissions Policies” in China (with Shuang Zhang and Hongbin Li).
- Senior Scholar, Opportunity & Inclusive Growth Institute: Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
- Visiting Professor, Uppsala University, Department of Economics (Sweden)
- Four children
In The Media
Douglas Almond, professor of international and public affairs and economics, and Zoey Yiyuan Zhou of Columbia Climate School, were awarded the Prize for Best Data and Metrics at the 2025 Global Research Alliance for Sustainable Finance and Investment (GRASFI) Conference for their paper “Biodiversity Co-Benefits in Carbon Markets? Evidence from Voluntary Offset Projects.”
A 2007 study cowritten by SIPA's Douglas Almond cited in the Wall Street Journal notes "that the black-white infant mortality gap shrank substantially in the years after integration."
SIPA’s faculty deploy cutting-edge research to address the world’s most complex challenges, locally and globally—protecting democracy, the environment, and women’s rights, among other critical issues.
The grants are designed to support projects pursuing basic social science inquiry, policy related research, or innovative teaching initiatives.
Douglas Almond spoke about his research that on days following late-night social media binges, Trump was “nearly three times more likely to be ‘angry’ in his interviews and speeches.”