Completed Papers

• Health Capital and the Prenatal Environment: The Effect of Ramadan Observance During Pregnancy
  with Bhashkar Mazumder · American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (October, 2011)
• Killing Me Softly: The Fetal Origins Hypothesis
  with Janet Currie · Journal of Economic Perspectives (Summer 2011)
• After Midnight: A Regression Discontinuity Design in Length of Postpartum Hospital Stays
  with Joseph Doyle · American Economic Journal: Economic Policy (August 2011)
• Inside the War on Poverty: The Impact of Food Stamps on Birth Outcomes
  with Hilary W. Hoynes & Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach · The Review of Economics and Statistics (May 2011)
• Human Capital Development Before Age Five · [nber wp version]
  with Janet Currie ·Handbook of Labor Economics, Volume 4b (2011)
• Civil Rights, the War on Poverty, and Black-White Convergence in Infant Mortality in the Rural South and Mississippi
  with Kenneth Chay and Michael Greenstone · conditionally accepted at The American Economic Review
• Public vs. Private Provision of Charity Care? Evidence from the Expiration of Hill-Burton Requirements in Florida
  with Janet Currie and Emilia Simeonova · Journal of Health Economics (January 2011)
• Long-Term Effects of Early-Life Development: Evidence from the 1959 to 1961 China Famine
  with Lena Edlund, Hongbin Li, and Junsen Zhang · University of Chicago Press (2010)
• Estimating Marginal Returns to Medical Care: Evidence from At-risk Newborns
  with Joseph Doyle, Amanda Kowalski, and Heidi Williams · The Quarterly Journal of Economics (May 2010);
  (2011 Garfield economic impact award , HCUP article of the year award, comment on comment.)
  
• Chernobyl's Subclinical Legacy: Prenatal Exposure to Radioactive Fallout and School Outcomes in Sweden
  with Lena Edlund & Mårten Palme · spread of Chernobyl plume across Europe (IRSN video) · The Quarterly Journal of Economics (November 2009)
• Lingering Prenatal Effects of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic on Cardiovascular Disease
  with Bhashkar Mazumder, Kyung Park, Eileen M. Crimmins, and Caleb E. Finch. Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (October 2009)
• Winter Heating or Clean Air? Unintended Consequences of China's Huai River Policy
  with Yuyu Chen, Michael Greenstone, and Hongbin Li. The American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings (May 2009)
• Son-biased Sex Ratios in the 2000 United States Census
  with Lena Edlund. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (March 2008)
• Trivers-Willard at Birth and One Year: Evidence from U.S. Natality Data 1983-2001
  with Lena Edlund. Proceedings of the Royal Society B| Biological Sciences (August 2007)
• 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 (August 2006)
• The Costs of Low Birth Weight
  with Kenneth Chay and David Lee. The Quarterly Journal of Ecnomics (August 2005)
• The 1918 Influenza Pandemic and Subsequent Health Outcomes: An Analysis of SIPP Data
  with Bhashkar Mazumder. The American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings (May 2005)

Working Papers

• Fasting During Pregnancy and Children's Academic Performance with Bhashkar Mazumder and Reyn Van Ewijk.
• From Infant to Mother: Early Disease Environment and Future Maternal Health with Janet Currie and Mariesa Herrmann.
• Childhood Exposure to the Food Stamp Program: Long-run Health and Economic Outcomes with Hilary W. Hoynes and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach.
• O Sister, Where Art Thou? The Role of Son Preference and Sex Choice: Evidence from Immigrants to Canada with Lena Edlund and Kevin Milligan.
• Son Preference and Early Childhood Investments in China with Hongbin Li and Lingsheng Meng (abstract only: please email Almond for current version).
• The Long-Run and Intergenerational Impact of Poor Infant Health: Evidence from Cohorts Born During the Civil Rights Era with Kenneth Chay.



Press Coverage

• Radiation and pregnancy by David Leonhardt  The New York Times (March 2011)
  Radiation might affect Japan's youngest by Anggatira Gollmer  Deutsche Weller (March 2011)
  In Japan, pregnant women have double the reason to dodge radiation by Bonnie Rochman  Time Magazine (March 2011)
  
• At risk from the womb by Nicholas D. Kristof  The New York Times (October 2010)
  
• Side effects of 1918 flu seen decades later by Adi Narayan  Time Magazine (October 2009)
  
• U.S. births hint at bias for boys in some Asians by Sam Roberts  The New York Times (June 2009)
  Male birth rate among Asian americans studied   NPR's All Things Considered (transcript of interview with Michele Norris: April, 2008)
  Thanks to Asians, even the US has got a skewed sex ratio by Neelam Raaj The Times of India (April 2008)
  
• Chernobyl fallout impaired mental development of Swedish infants by John Bonner  Chemistry World (August 2007)
  Nuclear energy: the jane fonda effect by Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt  The New York Times (September 2007)
  
• Rich mothers 'have more sons' by Roger Highfield  The Daily Telegraph (August 2007)
  
• Womb woes by JR Minkel  Scientific American (October 2006)
• So big and healthy grandpa wouldn't even know you by Gina Kolata  The New York Times (July 2006)
• Me & honey by Lindsay Powers  The New York Post (October 2005)
• Biological historians trace ebb and flow by David Wessel  The Wall Street Journal (September 2004)
  

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Bob Dylan

Thunder on the mountain rolling to the ground
Gonna get up in the morning walk the hard road down.
Some sweet day I'll stand beside my king
I wouldn't betray your love or any other thing.

Gonna raise me an army, some tough sons of bitches
I'll recruit my army from the orphanages.
I been to St. Herman's church and I've said my religious vows
I've sucked the milk out of a thousand cows.

I've got the pork chops, she's got the pie
She ain't no angel and neither am I.
Shame on your greed, shame on your wicked schemes
I'll say this, I don't give a damn about your dreams.

                                                                  ♦ Thunder on the Mountain

People are crazy and times are strange
I'm locked in tight, I'm out of range
I used to care, but things have changed.

                                                                  ♦ Things Have Changed

Now you would not think to look at him
But he was famous long ago
For playing the electric violin
On Desolation Row.

                                                                  ♦ Desolation Row