Anup Malani
Biographic Data
| ID | 1455911 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anup Malani |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anup |
| FAMILY NAME | Malani |
| SIGNATURE | MALANI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2594-5778 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The mortality burden from Covid in low-income settings: Evidence from verbal autopsies in India
Measuring the mortality burden of SARS-CoV-2 in lower-income countries is difficult because death registries are incomplete and lack cause of death. As a result, it is difficult to determine if deaths during the COVID pandemic were directly caused by SARS-CoV-2 or another ailment. We address this problem in India, which had the second-highest number of officially reported cases. We completed WHO-compliant verbal autopsy (VA) surveys on roughly 20…
Forced migration and women's empowerment: Evidence from Rohingya refugees
We explore a puzzle: high levels of satisfaction among forcibly displaced Rohingya women in informal camps in Hyderabad, India. Despite experiencing extreme poverty, loss of family and community, and high levels of gender-based violence after resettlement, both men and women – particularly women – report significant increases in satisfaction. We structured a representative household survey, employed a trusted female Muslim interviewer with deep t…
Assessing the burden of Covid-19 in developing countries: Systematic review, meta-analysis and public policy implications
Compromising Accuracy to Encourage Regulatory Participation
This paper examines the value of accuracy in voluntary or opt-in regulatory regimes. We show that if welfare depends primarily on the ability to identify noncompliant firms, tolerating mistakes in concluding that firms meet regulatory standards (false positives) can improve welfare. Consumers or investors anticipate the regulatory error rate and discount the positive message of a compliance finding. Welfare is nonetheless improved because the mis…
Infrastructure, enforcement, and Covid‐19 in Mumbai slums: A first look
This study is among the first to investigate whether patterns of access to basic services could explain the disproportionately severe impact of COVID‐19 in slums. Using geolocated containment zones and COVID‐19 case data for Mumbai, India's most populous city, we find that cases and case fatality rates are higher in slums compared with formal residential buildings. Our results show that access to toilets for men is associated with lower COVID‐19 …
The Law and Economics of Blockchain
This article examines the implications of Distributed Ledger Technology (a.k.a. blockchain) for several areas of law. While cryptocurrencies have received much attention, the implications of DLT are potentially far reaching. DLT raises interesting and important questions relating to rules of evidence, surrounding issues like hearsay and authentication. The advent of initial coin offerings has implications not only for how firms are financed but a…
Using household rosters from survey data to estimate all-cause excess death rates during the Covid pandemic in India
JUE insights: Does mobility explain why slums were hit harder by Covid-19 in Mumbai, India
Still in Mortal Peril? Recent Research Suggests a New Agenda for Health Care Reform
The Affordable Care Act expanded funding for health insurance and regulated health insurance markets. These actions followed from two premises. First, nearly 50 million people lacked health insurance in 2010 and were unable to obtain critical medical care. Second, the primary threat to health insurance markets is adverse selection: because healthy individuals are reluctant to join insurance pools, they must be mandated to purchase insurance. Rese…
Learning during a crisis: The Sars epidemic in Taiwan
Policy Preferences and Legal Interpretation
This article presents an empirical study of statutory interpretation. Respondents were asked to read statutes and answer questions about how they should be applied to simple cases. The results suggest, first, that it is difficult to separate judgments about the linguistic meaning of a statute from policy preferences about it. Different ways of framing the interpretive question have consequences, however; asking how an ordinary reader would interp…
Identifying Placebo Effects with Data from Clinical Trials
A medical treatment is said to have placebo effects if patients who are optimistic about the treatment respond better to the treatment. This paper proposes a simple test for placebo effects. Instead of comparing the treatment and control arms of a single trial, one should compare the treatment arms of two trials with different probabilities of assignment to treatment. If there are placebo effects, patients in the higher-probability trial will exp…
Identifying Placebo Effects with Data from Clinical Trials
A medical treatment is said to have placebo effects if patients who are optimistic about the treatment respond better to the treatment. This paper proposes a simple test for placebo effects. Instead of comparing the treatment and control arms of a single trial, one should compare the treatment arms of two trials with different probabilities of assignment to treatment. If there are placebo effects, patients in the higher-probability trial will exp…
Learning during a crisis: The Sars epidemic in Taiwan
JUE insights: Does mobility explain why slums were hit harder by Covid-19 in Mumbai, India
Forced migration and women's empowerment: Evidence from Rohingya refugees
We explore a puzzle: high levels of satisfaction among forcibly displaced Rohingya women in informal camps in Hyderabad, India. Despite experiencing extreme poverty, loss of family and community, and high levels of gender-based violence after resettlement, both men and women – particularly women – report significant increases in satisfaction. We structured a representative household survey, employed a trusted female Muslim interviewer with deep t…
Policy Preferences and Legal Interpretation
This article presents an empirical study of statutory interpretation. Respondents were asked to read statutes and answer questions about how they should be applied to simple cases. The results suggest, first, that it is difficult to separate judgments about the linguistic meaning of a statute from policy preferences about it. Different ways of framing the interpretive question have consequences, however; asking how an ordinary reader would interp…
Identifying Placebo Effects with Data from Clinical Trials
A medical treatment is said to have placebo effects if patients who are optimistic about the treatment respond better to the treatment. This paper proposes a simple test for placebo effects. Instead of comparing the treatment and control arms of a single trial, one should compare the treatment arms of two trials with different probabilities of assignment to treatment. If there are placebo effects, patients in the higher-probability trial will exp…
Policy Preferences and Legal Interpretation
This article presents an empirical study of statutory interpretation. Respondents were asked to read statutes and answer questions about how they should be applied to simple cases. The results suggest, first, that it is difficult to separate judgments about the linguistic meaning of a statute from policy preferences about it. Different ways of framing the interpretive question have consequences, however; asking how an ordinary reader would interp…
Learning during a crisis: The Sars epidemic in Taiwan
Still in Mortal Peril? Recent Research Suggests a New Agenda for Health Care Reform
The Affordable Care Act expanded funding for health insurance and regulated health insurance markets. These actions followed from two premises. First, nearly 50 million people lacked health insurance in 2010 and were unable to obtain critical medical care. Second, the primary threat to health insurance markets is adverse selection: because healthy individuals are reluctant to join insurance pools, they must be mandated to purchase insurance. Rese…
Assessing the burden of Covid-19 in developing countries: Systematic review, meta-analysis and public policy implications
Compromising Accuracy to Encourage Regulatory Participation
This paper examines the value of accuracy in voluntary or opt-in regulatory regimes. We show that if welfare depends primarily on the ability to identify noncompliant firms, tolerating mistakes in concluding that firms meet regulatory standards (false positives) can improve welfare. Consumers or investors anticipate the regulatory error rate and discount the positive message of a compliance finding. Welfare is nonetheless improved because the mis…
Infrastructure, enforcement, and Covid‐19 in Mumbai slums: A first look
This study is among the first to investigate whether patterns of access to basic services could explain the disproportionately severe impact of COVID‐19 in slums. Using geolocated containment zones and COVID‐19 case data for Mumbai, India's most populous city, we find that cases and case fatality rates are higher in slums compared with formal residential buildings. Our results show that access to toilets for men is associated with lower COVID‐19 …
The Law and Economics of Blockchain
This article examines the implications of Distributed Ledger Technology (a.k.a. blockchain) for several areas of law. While cryptocurrencies have received much attention, the implications of DLT are potentially far reaching. DLT raises interesting and important questions relating to rules of evidence, surrounding issues like hearsay and authentication. The advent of initial coin offerings has implications not only for how firms are financed but a…
Using household rosters from survey data to estimate all-cause excess death rates during the Covid pandemic in India
JUE insights: Does mobility explain why slums were hit harder by Covid-19 in Mumbai, India
Forced migration and women's empowerment: Evidence from Rohingya refugees
We explore a puzzle: high levels of satisfaction among forcibly displaced Rohingya women in informal camps in Hyderabad, India. Despite experiencing extreme poverty, loss of family and community, and high levels of gender-based violence after resettlement, both men and women – particularly women – report significant increases in satisfaction. We structured a representative household survey, employed a trusted female Muslim interviewer with deep t…
The mortality burden from Covid in low-income settings: Evidence from verbal autopsies in India
Measuring the mortality burden of SARS-CoV-2 in lower-income countries is difficult because death registries are incomplete and lack cause of death. As a result, it is difficult to determine if deaths during the COVID pandemic were directly caused by SARS-CoV-2 or another ailment. We address this problem in India, which had the second-highest number of officially reported cases. We completed WHO-compliant verbal autopsy (VA) surveys on roughly 20…
Business (5 works) · Economics (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 (4 works) · COVID-19 epidemiological studies (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Environmental health (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Population (3 works) · Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2 (3 works)