Neil Malhotra

Malhotra attended Yale University, where he earned his BA in economics in 2002.{{cite web |url=https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/faculty/neil-malhotra |title=Neil Malhotra |publisher=Stanford University |year=2014 |access-date=April 4, 2020}} At Yale he was mentored by Donald Green, whom he has credited with inspiring him to become a political scientist.{{cite news |url=https://poetsandquants.com/2015/04/16/2015-best-40-under-40-professors-neil-malhotra-stanford-gsb/?pq-category=business-school-news |title=2015 Best 40 Under 40 Professors: Neil Malhotra, Stanford GSB |work=Poets & Quants |date=April 16, 2015 |last=Carter |first=Andrea |access-date=April 4, 2020}} He then attended Stanford University, earning an MA in 2005 and a PhD in 2008.

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

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, and in 2019 he was named The Susan Ford Dorsey Faculty Fellow at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.{{cite web |url=https://professorships.stanford.edu/content/Graduate%20School%20of%20Business?page=1 |title=Graduate School of Business professorships |publisher=Stanford University Graduate School of Business |year=2020 |access-date=April 4, 2020}}

Malhotra has published work on American politics, voting behavior in elections and other forms of political behavior, and the methodology of survey research. 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. 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,{{cite journal |author1=Andrew Healy |author2=Neil Malhotra |title=Myopic Voters and Natural Disaster Policy |journal=American Political Science Review |volume=103 |issue=3 |year=2009 |pages=387–406|doi=10.1017/S0003055409990104 |s2cid=32422707 }} which led to consultations with the Federal Emergency Management Agency about optimal disaster preparedness. The study showed evidence that voters reward incumbents for disaster relief spending, but not for disaster preparedness spending.{{cite journal |author1=Andrew Healy |author2=Neil Malhotra |title=Myopic Voters and Natural Disaster Policy |journal=American Political Science Review |volume=103 |issue=3 |date=August 2009 |pages=387–406 |doi=10.1017/S0003055409990104|s2cid=32422707 }}

Since 2018, Malhotra has been a frequent contributor to Forbes.{{cite web |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/neilmalhotra/#2354d22615d1 |title=Neil Malotra Contributor |work=Forbes |year=2020 |access-date=April 4, 2020}} He has been quoted or cited in The Washington Post regarding topics such as government crisis response strategies,{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/03/14/house-moved-quickly-covid-19-response-bill-these-4-takeaways-explain-whats-likely-happen-next/ |title=The House moved quickly on a covid-19 response bill. These 4 takeaways explain what's likely to happen next |date=March 14, 2020 |newspaper=The Washington Post |last=Binder |first=Sarah |access-date=April 4, 2020}} the effects of major external events on elections,{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2014/07/09/could-brazils-world-cup-loss-really-affect-the-coming-presidential-election/ |title=Could Brazil's World Cup loss really affect the coming presidential election? |date=July 9, 2014 |newspaper=The Washington Post |last=Tucker |first=Joshua |access-date=April 4, 2020}} and corporate responsibility,{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/08/21/what-watch-now-that-ceos-have-rewritten-purpose-corporation/ |title=What to watch for now that CEOs have rewritten the purpose of the corporation |date=August 21, 2019 |newspaper=The Washington Post |last=McGregor |first=Jena |access-date=April 4, 2020}} and on similar topics in venues like The Atlantic,{{cite news |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/most-important-number-trumps-re-election-chances/609376/ |title=The Economy Is Collapsing. So Are Trump's Reelection Chances |date=April 3, 2020 |work=The Atlantic |last=Lowrey |first=Annie |access-date=April 4, 2020}} The New York Times,{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/30/upshot/bernie-sanders-indian-food.html |title=Bernie Sanders, and How Indian Food Can Predict Vote Choice |date=January 30, 2020|author1-link=Lynn Vavreck |work=The New York Times |last=Vavreck |first=Lynn |access-date=April 4, 2020}}{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/18/opinion/trump-fundraising-donors.html |title=The Changing Shape of the Parties Is Changing Where They Get Their Money |date=September 18, 2019 |work=The New York Times |last=Edsall |first=Thomas B. |access-date=April 4, 2020}} and Fortune.{{cite news |url=https://fortune.com/2019/11/22/stacey-abrams-carries-the-fight-against-voter-suppression/ |title=Stacey Abrams Carries the Fight Against Voter Suppression |date=November 22, 2019 |work=Fortune |last=McGirt |first=Ellen |access-date=April 4, 2020}}

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.{{cite web |url=https://www.russellsage.org/visiting-scholars/neil-malhotra |title=Neil Malhotra |publisher=Russell Sage Foundation |year=2013 |access-date=April 4, 2020}}

In 2015, Poets & Quants listed Malhotra as one of the top 40 professors under 40 years old. 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".{{cite journal |title=Emerging Scholar Award |journal=PS: Political Science & Politics |publisher=American Political Science Association |year=2016 |volume=49 |issue=4 |pages=942–960 |doi=10.1017/S1049096516001943 |doi-access=free }} In 2024, he was selected to the Andrew Carnegie Fellowship program.{{Cite news |date=May 16, 2024 |title=Congratulations to the Political Science Scholars Elected into the 2024 Class of the Andrew Carnegie Fellowship Program |url=https://politicalsciencenow.com/congratulations-to-the-political-science-scholars-elected-into-the-2024-class-of-the-andrew-carnegie-fellowship-program/ |access-date=September 17, 2024 |work=Political Science Now}}

Malhotra is married to Jane K. Willenbring. They have one child together, who was born in 2012.{{Cite web|url=http://www.upenn.edu/gazette/0113/window.html|title=Penn Gazette {{!}} Window|website=www.upenn.edu|access-date=July 30, 2021}}

• "Completion Time and Response Order Effects in Web Surveys", Public Opinion Quarterly 72(5):914–934 (2008)
• "Myopic Voters and Natural Disaster Policy", with Andrew Healy, American Political Science Review 103(3):387–406 (2009)
• "Irrelevant events affect voters' evaluations of government performance", with Andrew J. Healy and Cecilia Hyunjung Mo, PNAS 107(29):12804–12809 (2010)
• "Retrospective Voting Reconsidered", with Andrew Healy, Annual Review of Political Science 16:285–306 (2013)
• "Publication bias in the social sciences: Unlocking the file drawer", with Annie Franco and Gabor Simonovits, Science 345(6203):1502–1505 (2014)

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