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Overview

Douglas Almond is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States and has contributed to the field of social sciences through multiple published works. Their research spans diverse topics including sociology, political science, economics, global and planetary change, gender studies, and demography.

Almond's research has been published in a range of venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • AEA Papers and Proceedings
  • Nature Climate Change
  • Journal of Public Economics

Their research covers major themes such as atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, family dynamics and relationships, impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, blockchain technology applications and security, air quality and health impacts, atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, and media influence and politics.

Recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Douglas Almond include:

  • "Favourability towards natural gas relates to funding source of university energy centres," published in 2022 in Nature Climate Change
  • "Carbon-Trading Pilot Programs in China and Local Air Quality," published in 2021 in AEA Papers and Proceedings
  • "Later bedtimes predict President Trump's performance," published in 2020 in Economics Letters

Other significant publications where Almond is not the primary author but contributed include:

  • "Livestock plants and COVID-19 transmission," 2020 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Bitcoin and carbon dioxide emissions: Evidence from daily production decisions," 2023 in Journal of Public Economics

Almond collaborates frequently with several co-authors, which include:

  • Xinming Du
  • Anna Papp
  • Shuang Zhang
  • Alana Vogel
  • Yi Cheng

Best Publications

  • Killing Me Softly: The Fetal Origins Hypothesis.

    Douglas Almond;Janet Marion Currie

  • Is the 1918 Influenza Pandemic Over? Long‐Term Effects of In Utero Influenza Exposure in the Post‐1940 U.S. Population

    Douglas Almond

  • Human Capital Development Before Age Five

    Douglas Almond;Janet Currie

  • Childhood Circumstances and Adult Outcomes: Act II

    Douglas V. Almond;Janet M. Currie;Valentina Duque

  • Long Run Impacts of Childhood Access to the Safety Net

    Hilary W Hoynes;Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach;Douglas Almond

  • The Costs of Low Birth Weight

    Douglas Almond;Kenneth Y. Chay;David S. Lee

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

    Douglas Almond;Hilary W Hoynes;Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach

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

    Douglas V. Almond;Lena Edlund;Marten Palme

  • Health Capital and the Prenatal Environment: The Effect of Ramadan Observance during Pregnancy

    Douglas Almond;Bhashkar Mazumder

  • Long-Term Effects Of The 1959-1961 China Famine: Mainland China and Hong Kong

    Douglas Almond;Lena Edlund;Hongbin Li;Junsen Zhang

  • The 1918 Influenza Pandemic and Subsequent Health Outcomes: An Analysis of SIPP Data.

    Douglas Almond;Bhashkar Mazumder

  • ESTIMATING MARGINAL RETURNS TO MEDICAL CARE: EVIDENCE FROM AT-RISK NEWBORNS

    Douglas Almond;Joseph J. Doyle;Amanda E. Kowalski;Heidi Williams

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

    Douglas Almond;Yuyu Chen;Michael Greenstone;Hongbin Li

  • Fetal Origins and Parental Responses

    Douglas Almond;Bhashkar Mazumder

  • Son-biased sex ratios in the 2000 United States Census.

    Douglas Almond;Lena Edlund

  • Son Preference and the Persistence of Culture: Evidence from South and East Asian Immigrants to Canada

    Douglas Almond;Lena Edlund;Kevin Milligan

  • Land Reform and Sex Selection in China

    Douglas V. Almond;Hongbin Li;Shuang Zhang

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

    Douglas Almond;Joseph J Doyle

  • Lingering prenatal effects of the 1918 influenza pandemic on cardiovascular disease

    B. Mazumder;D. Almond;K. Park;E. M. Crimmins

  • Quantifying coal power plant responses to tighter SO2 emissions standards in China.

    Valerie J. Karplus;Shuang Zhang;Douglas V. Almond

  • Long-Run Impacts of Childhood Access to the Safety Net (WP-12-17)

    Hilary Hoynes;Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach;Douglas Almond

Frequent Co-Authors

Janet Currie
Janet Currie Princeton University
Amy Ellen Schwartz
Amy Ellen Schwartz Syracuse University
Caleb E. Finch
Caleb E. Finch University of Southern California
Theodore J. Joyce
Theodore J. Joyce Baruch College

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