Douglas Almond

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 Wolfram Schlenker. 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