Douglas Almond

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

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1.

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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desegregation, hospital access, Jim Crow, racial discrimination, Civil Rights Act

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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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air pollution, total suspended particulates, China, externalities, environment, heating, coal, Huai river

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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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Ramadan, fasting, prenatal, disability

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: 05 Jun 2022
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, birth endowments, birth weight, parental

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 (UPF) - 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: 01 Apr 2023
Douglas Almond and Janet Currie
Columbia University - Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Economics and Princeton University
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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 Last Revised: 23 Feb 2023
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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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 2022
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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The Costs of Low Birth Weight

NBER Working Paper No. w10552
Number of pages: 80 Posted: 22 Jun 2004 Last Revised: 02 Nov 2022
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 - Department of Economics
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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: 27 May 2023
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 - Department of Economics
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Land Reform and Sex Selection in China

NBER Working Paper No. w19153
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 21 Jun 2013 Last Revised: 03 May 2023
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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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 2022
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: 07 Sep 2022
Douglas Almond, Joseph J. Doyle, Amanda 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), University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Economics and MIT Department of Economics
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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: 22 Dec 2022
Douglas Almond, Lena Edlund, Marten Palme 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 IZA Institute of Labor EconomicsStockholm University - 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 Apr 2023
Douglas Almond, Janet Currie and Mariesa A Herrmann
Columbia University - Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Economics, Princeton University and Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
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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: 23 Jul 2023
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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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: 04 Dec 2022
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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Childhood Circumstances and Adult Outcomes: Act Ii

NBER Working Paper No. w23017
Number of pages: 130 Posted: 11 Jan 2017 Last Revised: 24 May 2023
Douglas Almond, Janet Currie and Valentina Duque
Columbia University - Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Economics, Princeton University and Columbia 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: 03 Mar 2023
Douglas Almond, Janet Currie and Emilia Simeonova
Columbia University - Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Economics, Princeton University and Johns Hopkins University - Carey Business School
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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 - Department of Economics

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Ramadan, fasting, Key Stage 1, prenatal, fetal development

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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

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