Douglas Almond
Assistant Professor of Economics
Columbia University
at time of fellowship
2007 to 2008
Douglas Almond, Assistant Professor of Economics at Columbia University, will investigate the effect of early health on adult health and socioeconomic outcomes among African Americans. He will draw on his previous research on the long-term and intergenerational effects of two 1960s public policy health initiatives – the food stamps program and hospital desegregation – to determine whether and how such programs benefit people in the long run.