# Keith Chen

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Chinese American behavioral economist

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**M. Keith Chen** is a [Chinese American](/source/Chinese_American) [behavioral economist](/source/Behavioral_economics). As of 2020, he is a tenured professor of economics at [UCLA](/source/UCLA)'s [Anderson School of Management](/source/UCLA_Anderson_School_of_Management).

Chen holds a Ph.D. in economics from [Harvard University](/source/Harvard_University) (2003). From 2003 to 2008 he was an [assistant professor](/source/Assistant_professor) of economics at the [Yale School of Management](/source/Yale_School_of_Management), and an [associate professor](/source/Associate_professor) there from 2008[1] until he transferred to UCLA in 2013 as associate professor.

Chen's research focuses on applied [microeconomic theory](/source/Microeconomic_theory). His [Whorfian hypothesis](/source/Whorfian_hypothesis) on how languages might affect behavior has received attention outside academia.[2][3]

He is married to Elisa Long, associate professor of operations management at UCLA.[4]

## Select publications

- with Elisa Long and Ryne Rhola (2020), ["Political Storms: Emergent Partisan Skepticism of Hurricane Risks"](https://www.anderson.ucla.edu/faculty_pages/keith.chen/papers/Final_ScienceAdv20_Man_and_Sup.pdf) (PDF), *Science Advances*, **6** (37) eabb7906, [Bibcode](/source/Bibcode_(identifier)):[2020SciA....6.7906L](https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020SciA....6.7906L), [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1126/sciadv.abb7906](https://doi.org/10.1126%2Fsciadv.abb7906), [PMC](/source/PMC_(identifier)) [7486090](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7486090), [PMID](/source/PMID_(identifier)) [32917709](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32917709), [S2CID](/source/S2CID_(identifier)) [221616983](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:221616983)

- [*The Effect of Language on Economic Behavior: Evidence from Savings Rates, Health Behaviors, and Retirement Assets*](https://www.anderson.ucla.edu/faculty_pages/keith.chen/papers/LanguageWorkingPaper.pdf) (PDF), American Economic Review, 2013

- [*Are Women Overinvesting in Education? Evidence from the Medical Profession*](http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/faculty/keith.chen/papers/GenderNPV_WorkingPaper.pdf) (PDF), Journal of Human Capital, 2012

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Associate Professor of Economics, Yale School of Management"](http://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/language-we-speak-predicts-saving-and-health-behavior), FEBRUARY 19, 2013

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** [Can Your Language Influence Your Spending, Eating, and Smoking Habits? An absurd-sounding claim leads to a surprising finding](https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/09/can-your-language-influence-your-spending-eating-and-smoking-habits/279484/)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** [Tomorrow, We Save Language offers a clue to countries' economic behavior.](https://foreignpolicy.com/2012/08/13/tomorrow-we-save/)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** [How statistics guided me through life, death and 'The Price Is Right'](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) - WP, 2015/08/07

## External links

- [UCLA profile](http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/faculty/keith.chen/CV.htm)

- [Primate Economics](https://www.forbes.com/2006/02/11/monkey-economics-money_cz_df_money06_0214monkeys.html) - Forbes, 2/14/2006

- Richard Morin: [Time In and Time Out](https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/01/AR2006020102110.html) - WP, February 2, 2006

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