Daniel Kahneman Collegiate Professor of Information

Research Professor, Research Center for Group Dynamics

Distinguished Visiting Professor

Yan Chen is the Daniel Kahneman Collegiate Professor in the School of Information at the University of Michigan. Her research interests are in behavioral and experimental economics, market design, and digital economics. She has served in various editorial positions, including Advisory Editor at Games and Economic Behavior (2013-2020) and Department Editor at Management Science (2018-2022). 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.

Working Papers:

  • Social Media and Job Market Success: A Field Experiment on Twitter.
    Jingyi Qiu, Yan Chen, Alain Cohn, and Alvin Roth. 2024. (Available at SSRN; 2025 version)
  • Crowdsourcing Digital Public Goods: A Field Experiment on Metadata Contributions.
    Linfeng Li, Yan Chen, Margaret Levenstein, and Lars Vilhuber. 2024. (Available at SSRN)
  • Group Identity and Belief Formation: A Decomposition of Political Polarization.
    Kevin Bauer, Yan Chen, Florian Hett, and Michael Kosfeld. 2023. (Available at SSRN; 2025 version)

Selected Publications:

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behavioral market design, digital economy, identity, teams, public goods, matching, auctions, contest, learning, mechanism design, game theory, political economy, biology, methodology, replication, survey, field experiment, lab experiment, theory.

yanchen@umich.edu
si-yanchen_at_umich_edu
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Address
4348 North Quad
School of Information
University of Michigan
105 South State Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285
(734) 764-9488
Teaching:
SI 563: Game Theory on open.michigan: The slides have been described by Mike Harmala. Feel free to download and re-use (creative commons license).
SIADS 631: Experimental Method on YouTube (17 videos, creative commons license). Please email me if you need any of the slides.
Acknowledgements:

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