M. Keith Chen is a

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behavioral economist Behavioral economics studies the effects of Psychology, psychological, cognitive bias, cognitive, emotional, cultural and social factors on the decision making, decisions of individuals or institutions, such as how those decisions vary from t ...

. As of 2020, he is a tenured professor of economics at

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's Anderson School of Management. Chen holds a Ph.D. in economics from

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(2003). From 2003 to 2008 he was an assistant professor of economics at the

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, and an

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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.How statistics guided me through life, death and ‘The Price Is Right’
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- Forbes, 2/14/2006 *Richard Morin

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