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Effect of health insurance in India : a randomized controlled trial

Malani, Anup; Holtzman, Phoebe; Imai, Kosuke; Kinnan, … - 2021

We report on a large randomized controlled trial of hospital insurance for above-poverty-line Indian households. Households were assigned to free insurance, sale of insurance, sale plus cash transfer, or control. To estimate spillovers, the fraction of households offered insurance varied across...

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Explaining the Income and Consumption Effects of COVID in India

Gupta, Arpit; Malani, Anup; Woda, Bartek - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic led to stark reductions in economic activity in India. We employ CMIE's Consumer Pyramids …

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Using Household Rosters from Survey Data to Estimate All-cause Mortality during COVID in India

Malani, Anup; Ramachandran, Sabareesh - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Official statistics on deaths in India during the COVID pandemic are either incomplete or are reported with a delay. To … overcome this shortcoming, we estimate excess deaths in India using the household roster from a large panel data set, the …% CI: 2.8M to 6.2M) excess deaths over 16 months during the pandemic in India. While we cannot demonstrate causality …

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Vaccine Allocation Priorities Using Disease Surveillance and Economic Data

Malani, Anup; Soman, Satej; Ramachandran, Sabareesh; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

procurement decisions in the context of India. We compare 3 different allocation strategies (oldest first, highest contact rate … vaccination using novel, local seroprevalence data from India. Second, we estimate the value of statistical life-years using …

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Effect of Health Insurance in India : A Randomized Controlled Trial

Malani, Anup; Holtzman, Phoebe; Imai, Kosuke; Kinnan, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

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Inequality in India Declined During COVID

Gupta, Arpit; Malani, Anup; Woda, Bartosz - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We use a large, representative panel data set from India with monthly data on household finances to examine the … incidence of economic harms during the COVID pandemic. We observe a sharp spike in poverty, peaking during India's sharp but …

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Does Mobility Explain Why Slums Were Hit Harder by COVID-19 in Mumbai, India?

Sheng, Jaymee; Malani, Anup; Goel, Ashish; Botla, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

SARS-CoV-2 has had a greater burden, as measured by rate of infection, in poorer communities within cities. For example, 55% of Mumbai slums residents had antibodies to COVID-19, 3.2 times the seroprevalence in non-slum areas of the city according to a sero-survey done in July 2020. One...

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Evaluating and pricing health insurance in lower-income countries : a field experiment in India

Malani, Anup; Kinnan, Cynthia; Conti, Gabriella; Imai, … - 2024

trial that randomized premiums and subsidies for India's first national, public hospital insurance program, RSBY. We find …

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Evaluating and Pricing Health Insurance in Lower-income Countries : A Field Experiment in India

Malani, Anup; Kinnan, Cynthia; Conti, Gabriella; Imai, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

trial that randomized premiums and subsidies for India's first national, public hospital insurance program, RSBY. We find …

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Adaptive Control of COVID-19 Outbreaks in India : Local, Gradual, and Trigger-based Exit Paths from Lockdown

Malani, Anup; Imbert, Clément - 2020

Managing the outbreak of COVID-19 in India constitutes an unprecedented health emergency in one of the largest and most … diverse nations in the world. On May 4, 2020, India started the process of releasing its population from a national lockdown …

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