Daniel Kahneman Collegiate Professor of Information

Research Professor, Research Center for Group Dynamics

Distinguished Visiting Professor


Research Summary:

Yan Chen is the Daniel Kahneman Collegiate Professor in the School of Information at the University of Michigan. She also holds an appointment as a research professor with the U-M Institute for Social Research. Her research interests are in behavioral and experimental economics, market and mechanism design, and public economics. She conducts both theoretical and experimental research.


Working Papers:

  • Putting Teams into the Gig Economy: A Field Experiment at a Ride-sharing Platform.
    Wei Ai, Yan Chen, Qiaozhu Mei, Jieping Ye, and Lingyu Zhang. 2021. (pdf)
  • Motivating Experts to Contribute to Digital Public Goods: A Personalized Field Experiment on Wikipedia.
    Yan Chen, Rosta Farzan, Robert Kraut, Iman YeckehZaare and Ark Fangzhou Zhang. 2020. (pdf)

Selected Publications:


Behavioral Market Design

Social Identity and Teams

Digital Public Goods and Economics of Information Technology

Methodology and biology

Mechanism Design and Learning

Positive Political Economy


(Everyday) yanchen_at_umich_edu
si-yanchen_at_umich_edu

(I use this email address to invite domain experts to contribute to Wikipedia.)

Address
4348 North Quad
School of Information
University of Michigan
105 South State Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285
(734) 764-9488
(734) 764-1555
yanchen_at_umich_edu
Office hours:
Resume fall semester.


Ph.D. students and post-docs:
Iman Yeckehzaare
Dr. Ulrike Vollstädt


Teaching:
SI 563: Game Theory on open.michigan: The slides have been dScribed by my former student, Mike Harmala.

Acknowledgements:

Our work is made possible through the generosity of the National Science Foundation. However, any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in the papers listed in this website are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

* This website's template is borrowed from Michael Bernstein.