“Unpacking the Value of Health Insurance in India” will build upon ongoing economic, psychological and epidemiological research examining the impact of a new government-sponsored health insurance program that will extend benefits to some 300 million Indians. The initial project, which Malani led, followed the financial and health outcomes of 12,000 households.

With support from the Neubauer Collegium, the team has grown to include Anuj Shah, assistant professor at Chicago Booth; Alessandra Voena, assistant professor in Economics and the College; as well as cultural anthropologists and ethnographers from Yale University, University College in London and the University of Edinburgh.

Malani said the Neubauer Collegium’s leaders encouraged the team to merge the qualitative research methods of the humanistic social sciences with quantitative methods to gain a more holistic view of health insurance, how Indians perceive it and how it influences well-being.

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