{{notability|1=Academics|date=August 2025}} {{Short description|Chinese American behavioral economist}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2025}} {{BLP sources|date=December 2015}} '''M. Keith Chen''' is a [[Chinese American]] [[Behavioral economics|behavioral economist]]. As of 2020, he is a tenured professor of economics at [[UCLA]]'s [[UCLA Anderson School of Management|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<ref>[http://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/language-we-speak-predicts-saving-and-health-behavior "Associate Professor of Economics, Yale School of Management"], FEBRUARY 19, 2013</ref> 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.<ref>[https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/09/can-your-language-influence-your-spending-eating-and-smoking-habits/279484/ Can Your Language Influence Your Spending, Eating, and Smoking Habits? An absurd-sounding claim leads to a surprising finding]</ref><ref>[https://foreignpolicy.com/2012/08/13/tomorrow-we-save/ Tomorrow, We Save Language offers a clue to countries' economic behavior.]</ref>
He is married to Elisa Long, associate professor of operations management at UCLA.<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-statistics-guided-me-through-life-death-and-the-price-is-right/2015/08/07/1568f728-3aeb-11e5-b3ac-8a79bc44e5e2_story.html How statistics guided me through life, death and 'The Price Is Right'] - WP, 2015/08/07</ref>
==Select publications== *{{Citation |year=2020 |title=Political Storms: Emergent Partisan Skepticism of Hurricane Risks|author= with Elisa Long and Ryne Rhola |journal=Science Advances|volume=6|issue=37|article-number=eabb7906|doi=10.1126/sciadv.abb7906|pmid=32917709 |pmc=7486090 |bibcode=2020SciA....6.7906L|s2cid=221616983|url=https://www.anderson.ucla.edu/faculty_pages/keith.chen/papers/Final_ScienceAdv20_Man_and_Sup.pdf}} *{{Citation |year=2013 |title=The Effect of Language on Economic Behavior: Evidence from Savings Rates, Health Behaviors, and Retirement Assets |publisher=American Economic Review |url=https://www.anderson.ucla.edu/faculty_pages/keith.chen/papers/LanguageWorkingPaper.pdf }} *{{Citation |year=2012|title=Are Women Overinvesting in Education? Evidence from the Medical Profession|publisher=Journal of Human Capital|url=http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/faculty/keith.chen/papers/GenderNPV_WorkingPaper.pdf }}
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==External links== *[http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/faculty/keith.chen/CV.htm UCLA profile] *[https://www.forbes.com/2006/02/11/monkey-economics-money_cz_df_money06_0214monkeys.html Primate Economics] - Forbes, 2/14/2006 *Richard Morin: [https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/01/AR2006020102110.html Time In and Time Out] - WP, February 2, 2006
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