Anup Malani

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University of Chicago Law School

1111 East 60th Street

Chicago, IL 60637

amalani@uchicago.edu

Anup Malani is the Lee and Brena Freeman Professor at the University of Chicago Law School. He is presently on leave from the University as the Chief Economist for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in Washington, DC.

He conducts research in health economics and policy, law and economics, and development economics. He has taught health law and policy and health economics, law and economics, microeconomics, food and drug law, securities law, bankruptcy law, corporate law, contract law, and insurance law.

Malani is also a Professor (courtesy) at the Pritzker School of Medicine at the University of Chicago, a Research Associate (healthcare and development) at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and the founding Faculty Director of the International Innovation Corps at the Harris School of Public Policy.

Malani is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, a member of the Covid Crisis Group, and has twice won the Emergent Ventures Prize.

He has a J.D. and a Ph.D. (economics) from the University of Chicago (advisors: Gary Becker, Tomas Philipson, and Willard Manning).

Recent and Selected Publications

Recent

2026

  1. The mortality burden from COVID in low-income settings: evidence from verbal autopsies in India
    Anup Malani
    BMC Public Health, 2026
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  2. An Economic Framework for Space Immigration
    Dorian S. Abbot and Anup Malani
    Space: Science & Technology, 2026
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  3. Access to credit reduces the value of insurance
    Sonia Jaffe, Anup Malani, and Julian Reif
    Journal of Public Economics, 2026
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2025

  1. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act—Making Medicaid and the Exchanges Sustainable
    Anup Malani
    JAMA, 2025
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  2. Revisiting the physical limits to economic growth, with a focus on the waste heat limit
    D. S. Abbot and A. Malani
    PLoS ONE, 2025
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  3. CaseSumm: A Large-Scale Dataset for Long-Context Summarization from U.S. Supreme Court Opinions
    M. Heddaya, K. MacMillan, A. Malani, and 2 more authors
    In NAACL Findings, 2025
  4. The Economics of Healthcare Fraud
    J. Leder-Luis and A. Malani
    2025
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Selected

2024

  1. Evaluating and Pricing Health Insurance in Lower-income Countries: A Field Experiment in India
    A. Malani, C. Kinnan, G. Conti, and 5 more authors
    2024
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2023

  1. Conceptual and analytical approaches for modelling the developmental origins of inequality
    A. Malani, E. A. Archie, and S. Rosenbaum
    Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2023
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2022

  1. The Potential Beneficial Effects of Vaccination on Antigenically Evolving Pathogens
    F. T. Wen, A. Malani, and S. Cobey
    The American Naturalist, 2022
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  2. An examination of velocity and initial coin offerings
    R. Holden and A. Malani
    Management Science, 2022
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2021

  1. Still in mortal peril? Recent research suggests a new agenda for health care reform
    A. Malani
    Journal of Legal Studies, 2021
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  2. Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 in Karnataka, India
    M. Mohanan, A. Malani, K. Krishnan, and 1 more author
    JAMA, 2021
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  3. Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 in slums versus non-slums in Mumbai, India
    A. Malani, D. Shah, G. Kang, and 8 more authors
    The Lancet Global Health, 2021
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  4. Causal Inference With Interference and Noncompliance in Two-Stage Randomized Experiments
    K. Imai, Z. Jiang, and A. Malani
    Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2021
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2019

  1. Labor markets in statistics: The subject supply effect in medical R&D
    A. Malani and T. J. Philipson
    Journal of Human Capital, 2019
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2017

  1. The insurance value of medical innovation
    D. Lakdawalla, A. Malani, and J. Reif
    Journal of Public Economics, 2017
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2015

  1. Interpreting pre-trends as anticipation: Impact on estimated treatment effects from tort reform
    A. Malani and J. Reif
    Journal of Public Economics, 2015
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2013

  1. Economic Epidemiology of Avian Influenza on Smallholder Poultry Farms
    M. Boni, A. Galvani, A. Wickelgren, and 1 more author
    Theoretical Population Biology, 2013
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  2. Advertisements impact the physiological efficacy of a branded drug
    E. Kamenica, R. Naclerio, and A. Malani
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2013
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2009

  1. Corporate Philanthropy and the Market for Altruism
    M. T. Henderson and A. Malani
    Columbia Law Review, 2009
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2008

  1. Valuing Laws as Local Amenities
    A. Malani
    Harvard Law Review, 2008
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2006

  1. Identifying Placebo Effects with Data from Clinical Trials
    A. Malani
    Journal of Political Economy, 2006
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