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Civil Rights, the War on Poverty, and Black-White Convergence in Infant Mortality in the Rural South and Mississippi

MIT Department of Economics Working Paper No. 07-04

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 07 Feb 2007

Douglas Almond, Kenneth Y. Chay and Michael Greenstone

Columbia University - Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics and University of Chicago - Department of Economics

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Winter Heating or Clean Air? Unintended Impacts of China's Huai River Policy

MIT Department of Economics Working Paper No. 09-02

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 15 Jan 2009

Douglas Almond, Yuyu Chen, Michael Greenstone and Li Hongbin

Columbia University - Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Economics, Peking University - Guanghua School of Management, University of Chicago - Department of Economics and Tsinghua University

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Health Capital and the Prenatal Environment: The Effect of Maternal Fasting During Pregnancy

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Health Capital and the Prenatal Environment: The Effect of Maternal Fasting During Pregnancy

FRB of Chicago Working Paper No. 2007-22

Number of pages: 74 Posted: 13 Jun 2008 Last Revised: 23 Apr 2011

Bhashkar Mazumder and Douglas Almond

Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and Columbia University - Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Economics

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Health Capital and the Prenatal Environment: The Effect of Maternal Fasting During Pregnancy

NBER Working Paper No. w14428

Number of pages: 79 Posted: 23 Oct 2008 Last Revised: 13 May 2010

Douglas Almond and Bhashkar Mazumder

Columbia University - Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Economics and Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

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Fetal Origins and Parental Responses

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Fetal Origins and Parental Responses

FRB of Chicago Working Paper No. 2012-14

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 15 Dec 2012 Last Revised: 07 Feb 2013

Douglas Almond and Bhashkar Mazumder

Columbia University - Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Economics and Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

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Fetal Origins and Parental Responses

Annual Review of Economics, Vol. 5, pp. 37-56, 2013

Posted: 07 Aug 2013

Douglas Almond and Bhashkar Mazumder

Columbia University - Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Economics and Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

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Capital, Wages, and Growth: Theory and Evidence

IGIER Working Paper No. 152

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 03 Aug 1999

Antonio Ciccone, Douglas Almond and Giovanni Peri

Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Faculty of Economic and Business Sciences, Columbia University - Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Economics and University of California, Davis - Department of Economics

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Human Capital Development Before Age Five

NBER Working Paper No. w15827

Number of pages: 142 Posted: 22 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 23 Apr 2010

Douglas Almond and Janet Currie

Columbia University - Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Economics and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

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Long-Term Effects of the 1959-1961 China Famine: Mainland China and Hong Kong

NBER Working Paper No. w13384

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 11 Sep 2007 Last Revised: 29 Jul 2010

Douglas Almond, Lena Edlund, Hongbin Li and Junsen Zhang

Columbia University - Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Economics, Columbia University - Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Economics, Chinese University of Hong Kong - Department of Economics and The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) - Department of Economics

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O Sister, Where Art Thou? The Role of Son Preference and Sex Choice: Evidence from Immigrants to Canada

NBER Working Paper No. w15391

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 05 Oct 2009 Last Revised: 06 Oct 2010

Douglas Almond, Lena Edlund and Kevin S. Milligan

Columbia University - Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Economics, Columbia University - Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Economics and University of British Columbia (UBC) - Department of Economics

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The Costs of Low Birth Weight

NBER Working Paper No. w10552

Number of pages: 80 Posted: 22 Jun 2004 Last Revised: 13 Feb 2010

Douglas Almond, Kenneth Y. Chay and David Lee

Columbia University - Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics and University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics

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Fasting During Pregnancy and Children's Academic Performance

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Fasting During Pregnancy and Children's Academic Performance

Netspar Discussion Paper No. 12/2011-113

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 23 Feb 2012

Douglas Almond, Bhashkar Mazumder and Reyn van Ewijk

Columbia University - Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Economics, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

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Fasting During Pregnancy and Children's Academic Performance

NBER Working Paper No. w17713

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 31 Dec 2011 Last Revised: 02 Jan 2012

Douglas Almond, Bhashkar Mazumder and Reyn van Ewijk

Columbia University - Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Economics, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

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Long Run Impacts of Childhood Access to the Safety Net

NBER Working Paper No. w18535

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 20 Nov 2012

Hilary Williamson Hoynes, Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach and Douglas Almond

University of California, Berkeley, Northwestern University - School of Education and Social Policy and Columbia University - Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Economics

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After Midnight: A Regression Discontinuity Design in Length of Postpartum Hospital Stays

NBER Working Paper No. w13877

Number of pages: 79 Posted: 19 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 23 Jan 2010

Douglas Almond and Joseph J. Doyle

Columbia University - Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Economics and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Economics, Finance, Accounting (EFA)

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Chernobyl's Subclinical Legacy: Prenatal Exposure to Radioactive Fallout and School Outcomes in Sweden

NBER Working Paper No. w13347

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 23 Oct 2007 Last Revised: 13 May 2010

Douglas Almond, Lena Edlund and Marten Palme

Columbia University - Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Economics, Columbia University - Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Economics and Stockholm University - Department of Economics

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Inside the War on Poverty: The Impact of Food Stamps on Birth Outcomes

NBER Working Paper No. w14306

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 08 Sep 2008 Last Revised: 05 Aug 2010

Douglas Almond, Hilary Williamson Hoynes and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach

Columbia University - Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley and Northwestern University - School of Education and Social Policy

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Estimating Marginal Returns to Medical Care: Evidence from At-Risk Newborns

NBER Working Paper No. w14522

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 08 Dec 2008 Last Revised: 06 Aug 2014

Douglas Almond, Joseph J. Doyle, Amanda Ellen Kowalski and Heidi L. Williams

Columbia University - Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Economics, Finance, Accounting (EFA), National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and MIT Department of Economics

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From Infant to Mother: Early Disease Environment and Future Maternal Health

NBER Working Paper No. w17676

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 17 Dec 2011 Last Revised: 20 Dec 2011

Douglas Almond, Janet Currie and Mariesa A Herrmann

Columbia University - Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Economics, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.

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Childhood Circumstances and Adult Outcomes: Act Ii

NBER Working Paper No. w23017

Number of pages: 130 Posted: 11 Jan 2017 Last Revised: 20 Jan 2017

Douglas Almond, Janet Currie and Valentina Duque

Columbia University - Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Economics, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Columbia University

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Land Reform and Sex Selection in China

NBER Working Paper No. w19153

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 21 Jun 2013

Douglas Almond, Li Hongbin and Shuang Zhang

Columbia University - Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Economics, Tsinghua University and Stanford University

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Public vs. Private Provision of Charity Care? Evidence from the Expiration of Hill-Burton Requirements in Florida

NBER Working Paper No. w15798

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 08 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 05 Sep 2010

Douglas Almond, Janet Currie and Emilia Simeonova

Columbia University - Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Economics, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Johns Hopkins University - Carey Business School

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In Utero Ramadan Exposure and Children's Academic Performance

The Economic Journal, Vol. 125, Issue 589, pp. 1501-1533, 2015

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 19 Jan 2016

Douglas Almond, Bhashkar Mazumder and Reyn van Ewijk

Columbia University - Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Economics, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

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Fasting During Pregnancy and Children’s Academic Performance

Posted: 07 Dec 2011

Douglas Almond, Bhashkar Mazumder and Reyn van Ewijk

Columbia University - Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Economics, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

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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, Vol. 114, pp. 672-712, August 2006

Posted: 01 Nov 2006

Douglas Almond

Columbia University - Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Economics

Douglas Almond

Columbia University - Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Economics

Assistant Professor

National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

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