About Keith Chen
Born 1970. Keith Chen is an American economist.
M. Keith Chen is a Chinese American behavioral economist. As of 2020, he is a tenured professor of economics at UCLA's Anderson School of Management.
Chen holds a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University (2003). From 2003 to 2008 he was an assistant professor of economics at the Yale School of Management, and an associate professor there from 2008 until he transferred to UCLA in 2013 as associate professor.
Chen's research focuses on applied microeconomic theory. His Whorfian hypothesis on how languages might affect behavior has received attention outside academia.
He is married to Elisa Long, associate professor of operations management at UCLA.
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Chinese American behavioral economist
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Keith Chen was born in 1970 in California.
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