Neil Malhotra

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Neil Malhotra
Nationality American
Alma mater
Awards
  • Top 40 Under 40, Poets & Quants
  • Emerging Scholar Award, APSA Elections
Scientific career
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Neil Malhotra is an American political economist. He is the Edith M. Cornell Professor of Political Economy in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, where he is also the Louise and Claude N. Rosenbrg, Jr. Director of the Center for Social Innovation. He studies the politics of the United States, survey methodology, and voter behavior in elections, including work on retrospective voting and on the politics of disaster preparedness and relief.

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Education and early work

Malhotra attended Yale University, where he earned his BA in economics in 2002. [1] At Yale he was mentored by Donald Green, whom he has credited with inspiring him to become a political scientist. [2] He then attended Stanford University, earning an MA in 2005 and a PhD in 2008. [1]

After obtaining his PhD, Malhotra joined the faculty at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. [1] He remained there until 2010, when he moved to the political science department at the University of Pennsylvania. [1] In 2011, he returned to the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, where he is also affiliated with the political science department. [1]

Career

Academic positions

Since 2015, Malhotra has been the Louise and Claude N. Rosenberg Jr. Director of the Center for Social Innovation. In 2017 he was named the Edith M. Cornell Professor of Political Economy, [1] and in 2019 he was named The Susan Ford Dorsey Faculty Fellow at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. [3]

Research

Malhotra has published work on American politics, voting behavior in elections and other forms of political behavior, and the methodology of survey research. [1] His work on voter behavior includes research on the problem of retrospective voting, and how strongly voters consider past events when arriving at a vote choice. [4] Malhotra has also published work on disaster response by governments, and how that response is rewarded or punished by voters. In 2009 he published the study "Myopic voters and natural disaster policy" in the American Political Science Review , [5] which led to consultations with the Federal Emergency Management Agency about optimal disaster preparedness. [2] The study showed evidence that voters reward incumbents for disaster relief spending, but not for disaster preparedness spending. [2] [6] [7]

Since 2018, Malhotra has been a frequent contributor to Forbes . [8] He has been quoted or cited in The Washington Post regarding topics such as government crisis response strategies, [9] the effects of major external events on elections, [10] and corporate responsibility, [11] and on similar topics in venues like The Atlantic , [6] The New York Times , [12] [13] and Fortune . [14]

Awards

During 2012–2013, Malhotra was the recipient of a grant from the Russell Sage Foundation to study how voters weight recent events compared to events in the distant past, which is related to the question of retrospective voting in American politics. [4]

In 2015, Poets & Quants listed Malhotra as one of the top 40 professors under 40 years old. [2] In 2016, Malhotra won the Emerging Scholar Award from the Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior Section of the American Political Science Association, which "is awarded to the top scholar in the field who is within 10 years of her or his PhD". [15]

Personal life and other interests

Malhotra is married to Jane K. Willenbring. They have one child together, who was born in 2012. [16]

Selected works

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References

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  2. 1 2 3 4 Carter, Andrea (April 16, 2015). "2015 Best 40 Under 40 Professors: Neil Malhotra, Stanford GSB". Poets & Quants. Retrieved April 4, 2020.
  3. ↑ "Graduate School of Business professorships". Stanford University Graduate School of Business. 2020. Retrieved April 4, 2020.
  4. 1 2 "Neil Malhotra". Russell Sage Foundation. 2013. Retrieved April 4, 2020.
  5. ↑ Andrew Healy; Neil Malhotra (2009). "Myopic Voters and Natural Disaster Policy". American Political Science Review. 103 (3): 387–406. doi:10.1017/S0003055409990104. S2CID   32422707.
  6. 1 2 Lowrey, Annie (April 3, 2020). "The Economy Is Collapsing. So Are Trump's Reelection Chances". The Atlantic. Retrieved April 4, 2020.
  7. ↑ Andrew Healy; Neil Malhotra (August 2009). "Myopic Voters and Natural Disaster Policy". American Political Science Review. 103 (3): 387–406. doi:10.1017/S0003055409990104. S2CID   32422707.
  8. ↑ "Neil Malotra Contributor". Forbes. 2020. Retrieved April 4, 2020.
  9. ↑ Binder, Sarah (March 14, 2020). "The House moved quickly on a covid-19 response bill. These 4 takeaways explain what's likely to happen next". The Washington Post. Retrieved April 4, 2020.
  10. ↑ Tucker, Joshua (July 9, 2014). "Could Brazil's World Cup loss really affect the coming presidential election?". The Washington Post. Retrieved April 4, 2020.
  11. ↑ McGregor, Jena (August 21, 2019). "What to watch for now that CEOs have rewritten the purpose of the corporation". The Washington Post. Retrieved April 4, 2020.
  12. ↑ Vavreck, Lynn (January 30, 2020). "Bernie Sanders, and How Indian Food Can Predict Vote Choice". The New York Times. Retrieved April 4, 2020.
  13. ↑ Edsall, Thomas B. (September 18, 2019). "The Changing Shape of the Parties Is Changing Where They Get Their Money". The New York Times. Retrieved April 4, 2020.
  14. ↑ McGirt, Ellen (November 22, 2019). "Stacey Abrams Carries the Fight Against Voter Suppression". Fortune. Retrieved April 4, 2020.
  15. ↑ "Emerging Scholar Award". PS: Political Science & Politics. American Political Science Association. 49 (4): 942–960. 2016. doi: 10.1017/S1049096516001943 . Retrieved April 4, 2020.
  16. ↑ "Penn Gazette | Window". www.upenn.edu. Retrieved July 30, 2021.
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