Yan Chen’s research interests are in behavioral and experimental economics, market and mechanism design. She conducts large-scale randomized field experiments on gig economy platforms to test the efficacy of team formation algorithms on gig worker productivity and retention. She also conducts experiments in online communities to evaluate what increases pro-social behavior. Her experiments are informed by economic theory and causal inference techniques.
Yan Chen
Daniel Kahneman Collegiate Professor of Information, School of Information
Research Professor, Research Center for Group Dynamics, Institute for Social Research
causal inference, data science for social good, experiment design
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WebsiteLocation
Ann Arbor
Methodologies
Causal Inference / Optimization
Applications
Economics, Finance and Business /
Community Affiliation