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Prof. Yan Chen, PhD

Member of the Global Faculty

Daniel Kahneman Collegiate Professor in the School of Information at the University of Michigan

Yan Chen graduated from Tsinghua University in 1988 and received her PhD from the California Institute of Technology in 1995. She became an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Michigan in 1994. She is the Daniel Kahneman Collegiate Professor in the School of Information at the University of Michigan.

Chen is a leading scholar in behavioral market design, identity economics, and digital economics. She was the president (2015-17) of the Economic Science Association, and the recipient of the 2019 Carolyn Shaw Bell Award. She is a Fellow of the Economic Science Association since 2024.

Five representative publications:

  1. 1. Yan Chen, Rosta Farzan, Robert Kraut, Iman YeckehZaare and Ark Fangzhou Zhang (2024). Motivating Experts to Contribute to Digital Public Goods: A Personalized Field Experiment on Wikipedia. Management Science 70 (5): 3264-3280. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2023.4852
     
  2. Ye, Teng, Wei Ai, Yan Chen, Qiaozhu Mei, Jieping Ye, and Lingyu Zhang (2022). Virtual Teams in a Gig Economy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119 (51): e2206580119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2206580119
     
  3. Yan Chen and Onur Kesten (2017). Chinese College Admissions and School Choice Reforms: A Theoretical Analysis. Journal of Political Economy 125:1, 99-139. https://doi.org/10.1086/689773
     
  4. Yan Chen, Max Harper, Joseph Konstan and Sherry Xin Li (2010). Social Comparisons and Contributions to Online Communities: A Field Experiment on MovieLens . American Economic Review 100(4): 1358-1398. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.100.4.1358
     
  5. Yan Chen and Sherry Xin Li (2009). Group Identity and Social Preferences American Economic Review 99:1, 431-457. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.99.1.431